* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. GOOD EVENING [00:00:01] EVERYONE. SO, UM, LET'S, UM, START WITH THE PLEDGE [ PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE] OF ALLEGIANCE. YES, ALLEGIANCE, UNITED STATES MATTER, THE REPUBLIC OR STANDS ONE NATION ON ANOTHER AND INDIVISIBLE, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE. AND, UM, WE HAVE, UM, A MOMENT OF SILENCE. UM, FIRST, UH, WE HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE IN MEMORY OF OSCAR JONES. OSCAR WAS A LONG TIME EMPLOYEE, UM, WHO WAS WORKING IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG BUILDING DEPARTMENT. UM, AT THE TIME HE PASSED AWAY, HE WAS ASSISTANT, UH, BUILDING INSPECTOR, UH, TOWN OF GREENBURG FOR OVER 23 YEARS. HE WAS KNOWN, UM, FOR HIS DEDICATION TO ASSISTING HOMEOWNERS WITH NAVIGATING THROUGH THE OFTEN DETAILED PERMIT PROCESSES IN THE DEPARTMENT. HE WAS AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN BY FAMILY AND FRIENDS AS BROTHER OSCAR. HE WAS A LIFELONG RESIDENT OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG. HE GRADUATED FROM ELMSFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS, ATTENDED MANHATTAN'S, NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY IN HOWARD'S UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING, AND HE GRADUATED C*M LATA WITH A BACHELOR'S DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE. OSCAR WORKED ON THE EISENHOWER MUSEUM AT THE KENNEDY CENTER IN WASHINGTON D C AND ON SEVERAL OTHER MAJOR DESIGN PROJECTS AS AN ARCHITECT IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, INCLUDING THE WILLIAM BROWN AND JAMES BASIN CORP. TOWNHOUSE DEVELOPMENTS AND WHITE PLAINS AND ELMSFORD BUILDING AND SITE DEVELOPMENT PLANS FOR SEVERAL CHURCHES IN THE TOWN, INCLUDING THE FIRST COMMUNITY CHURCH OF THE NAZARENE, TO FILL GOSPEL, CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP CHURCH AND CONSTRUCTION ADDITIONS TO ST. FRANCIS AND ST. MARTHA'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH. HE WAS HIGHLY REGARDED THROUGHOUT THE TOWN FOR HIS SKILLS AND EXPERTISE AS AN ARCHITECT AND FOR HIS GENUINE KINDNESS AND CONCERN FOR OTHERS. AND HE WILL BE MISSED IN THE TOWN, UM, BUILDING DEPARTMENT AND THE WHOLE TOWN GOVERNMENT IS, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S A BIG LOSS FOR ALL OF US. AND PAUL, IF I MAY ADD TO YOUR, UM, BEAUTIFUL TRIBUTE, A REQUEST FROM ONE OF THE EMPLOYEES OF THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT ASKED ME TO READ THE FOLLOWING STATEMENT. I MET OSCAR JONES ALMOST THREE DECADES AGO AS A NEWLY LICENSED ARCHITECT WHO WOULD FREQUENT THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT TO FILE PROJECTS. STAFF IMMEDIATELY TOOK A LIKING TO OSCAR, HIS PROFESSIONALISM AND POLITENESS WAS ALWAYS A BRIGHT SPOT IN EVERYONE'S DAY. OSCAR LATER JOINED OUR STAFF AT THE BUILDING DEPARTMENT AND GENERATED A LONG LASTING VALUABLE IMPACT. HIS PROFESSIONALISM, WORK ETHIC, KNOWLEDGE, KINDNESS, AND WILLINGNESS TO ASSIST WAS INSPIRATIONAL. I FEEL BLESSED TO HAVE KNOWN OSCAR AS A COLLEAGUE AND FRIEND. HE HAS TOUCHED MY LIFE AS WELL AS SO MANY OTHERS IN SO MANY WAYS WITH GREAT SADNESS. I CAN SAY OSCAR WILL BE DEEPLY MISSED, BUT NEVER FORGOTTEN AS WELL AS WILL CARRY ON FINE MEMORIES OF OSCAR IN OUR HEARTS. ANTHONY ZACH, DEPUTY BUILDING INSPECTOR TOWN OF GREENBURG. VERY NICE. THANK YOU. WE ALSO HAVE A MOMENT OF SILENCE, UH, FOR NICHOLAS GASPAR, A IRVINGTON RESIDENT AND FORMER IRVINGTON FIRE CHIEF WHO DID SO MUCH FOR THE COMMUNITY, WAS ALWAYS ON, ON CALL, UH, PROTECTING PEOPLE, UH, FROM FIRES AND, UM, ORGANIZING THE OTHER VOLUNTEERS, AND HE WILL BE GREATLY MISSED. AND MARYANNE MARA, A FORMER MEMBER OF THE IRVINGTON ARCHITECTURAL REVIEW BOARD AND WIFE OF FORMER, UM, IRVINGTON MAYOR REGINALD, UH, MAYOR, WILL ALSO BE MISSED. UM, SHE WAS A WONDERFUL, UM, PERSON AND AGREED, UH, ASSET TO, UM, TEAR OUR COMMUNITY. [00:05:06] THANK YOU. JUST ONE FINAL NOTE ABOUT OSCAR. OSCAR PASSED AWAY WHILE STILL WORKING HERE, COMING TO WORK EVERY DAY. AND SO WE JUST, WE JUST WANT, UH, THE PUBLIC TO KNOW HOW DEEPLY HIS PASSING HAS AFFECTED US. HIS SISTER WAS A DEAR FRIEND OF MY SISTER VILLE AND HIS FAMILY, AND MY FAMILY KNEW EACH OTHER THROUGH MANY DECADES, AND HE WILL BE SORELY MISSED. THANK YOU AGAIN. WE'RE WAITING [ PRESENTATIONS Ceremonial signing of Resolution TB-1 -- 11/22/2021, "Town of Greenburgh Resolution in Support of Black Lives," and presentation to the White Plains/Greenburgh NAACP, Janice K. Griffith, President, who requested it Honoring Lloyd Court -- Westchester County Hall of Fame Honoring Madelon O'Shea -- Westchester County Hall of Fame Honoring Kenny Herzog - Executive Director -- Vax Up Westchester Raftelis/ Phiilip Sapone - Senior Consultant -- Consolidated Water District #1] FOR, UH, UH, FRANCIS, UM, UH, CHIAN. SO WE'RE GONNA TAKE, UM, SOME OF THE, UM, PRESENTATIONS A LITTLE OUT OF, OUT OF ORDER. UM, THE FIRST, UM, PERSON I'D LIKE TO, UM, RECOGNIZE, UH, TONIGHT IS, UM, KENNY, UM, HERZOG KENNY, UM, UM, HAS WORKED TIRELESSLY, UM, AND RELENTLESSLY ON BEHALF OF GETTING INFORMATION AND VACCINES TO ANYONE ELIGIBLE FOR THE C OVID 19 DOSES IN LOWER WESTCHESTER COUNTY AND BEYOND. UM, HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE GREENBURG SNOW ANGELS FOR, UH, FOR MANY YEARS. UM, HE, UM, UH, HELPED ORGANIZE THE COVID ANGELS INITIATIVE THAT LAUNCHED EARLY IN 2021 AS SOON AS VACCINES WERE STARTING TO BECOME AVAILABLE. AND HE SPENT MANY, MANY HOURS GETTING THAT EFFORT ORGANIZED WITH SCRIPTS AND VARIOUS WRITTEN MATERIALS. AND HE WAS ALSO INTERVIEWED ON, UM, SOME OF THE NEWS PROGRAMS, UM, EARLY IN THE YEAR ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF, UH, IMPORTANCE OF, UM, HELPING PEOPLE GET VACCINE VACCINATED. UM, IT WAS HARD TO GET VACCINATIONS, UM, IN JANUARY AND FEBRUARY, BUT LATER ON DURING THE SUMMER, UM, IT BECAME EASIER. AND, BUT IT'S ALSO BECAME MORE CHALLENGING BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE, UH, WHEN WE SHIFTED TO PHASE TWO, UM, DID NOT WANT TO TAKE THE VACCINES. SO, KENNY, UM, YOU KNOW, WORKING, UM, YOU KNOW, WITH THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, UM, SHIFTED TO PHASE TWO WITH THE PROJECT RENAMED VAX UP WESTCHESTER. AND, UM, WHAT VAX UP WESTCHESTER HAS DONE, THANKS TO KENNY'S ON HARD WORK AND LEADERSHIP IS THEY'VE BEEN ABLE TO ADDRESS HESITANCY AND ACCESS. UM, HE HAS DONE AN AMAZING JOB LEADING, UH, THE EFFORT OF INFORMING, UM, HE'S CONVERTED HESITANT PEOPLE, PEOPLE WHO DON'T WANT TO TAKE THE VACCINES, TRY PERSUADED THEM TO, UM, UH, CHANGE THEIR MIND. HE'S ORGANIZED A POPUP, YOU KNOW, CLINICS, UM, ALL OVER, ALL OVER THE AREA. AND, UM, HE RECEIVES NO SALARY OR STIPEND, BUT HE'S SPENT, YOU KNOW, THOUSANDS OF HOURS, UM, HELPING US SAVE, UH, LIVES OF, OF RESIDENTS IN, IN THE TOWN, IN THE TOWN AND IN THE COUNTY. SO FAR, UM, THANKS TO HIS EFFORTS, OVER A THOUSAND PEOPLE HAVE GOTTEN, UH, COVID, UM, SHOTS IN THE ARMS OR, OR, OR BOOSTERS. UM, SO I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, RECOGNIZE, UM, UH, KENNY HERZOG, UH, FOR HIS OUTSTANDING, UM, UM, EFFORTS, UH, DURING THIS PANDEMIC. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, HE REALLY SHOULD TAKE, UH, PRIDE IN THE FACT THAT HE HAS SAVED MANY, MANY LIVES DURING THE PAST YEAR. SO, THANK YOU. KENNY, YOU WANNA SAY A FEW WORDS? JUST GO TO THE MIC, MIC THIS MIC? YES. DO I, IS THIS FINE? RIGHT. OKAY. WELL, IT'S, IT'S WEIRD TO TALK INTO THE MIC, BUT WITH EVERYONE TO MY BACK, UM, GO TO THE SIDE A LITTLE BIT. OKAY. ALRIGHT. THIS IS, THERE YOU GO. AH, SO, UM, NO, FIRSTLY, IT'S, IT'S SUPER IMPORTANT TO THANK PAUL AND EVERYONE WITH THE TOWN OF GREENBURG KRISTA MATSON ON DOWN, UM, FOR ALLOWING MYSELF AND, AND THE REST OF THE COHORT OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THIS V WESTCHESTER THING FOR MONTHS AND THE COVID ANGLES BEFORE IT, GIVING US THE IMPRIMATUR OF THE TOWN AND [00:10:01] THE, THE LATITUDE TO KIND OF SPREAD OUR WINGS AND DO THIS WHEREVER, WORK WHEREVER IT WAS NEEDED. UM, AS WE KNOW, UNFORTUNATELY, YOU KNOW, CASE RATES ARE STILL ESCALATING EVERYWHERE AND THIS THING REMAINS INSIDIOUS, AND IT KIND OF UNDERSCORES THAT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T JUST CHERRY PICK CERTAIN STATS THAT MAKE THINGS LOOK BETTER THAN THEY ARE AND IGNORE THE FACT THAT THERE'S A CYCLE OF DISINVESTMENT IN CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS AND COMMUNITIES THAT ULTIMATELY, YOU KNOW, AFFECTS EVERYONE. AND IT ALWAYS SHOULD HAVE BEEN LOOKED AT THROUGH THAT PRISM THAT IF WE DON'T INVEST IN IN THE WELFARE OF ONE COMMUNITY, WE'RE NOT INVESTING IN THE WELFARE OF THE ENTIRETY OF OUR REGION. SO, UM, IF YOU HAVE ANY INTEREST IN, IN KNOWING MORE ABOUT WHAT WE'RE DOING OR HELPING US IN ANY WAY, WE DO HAVE A WEBSITE BACKS UP WESTCHESTER.ORG. WE HAVE AN EMAIL, WHICH ISN'T FANCY, BUT IT'S VAX UP WESTCHESTER AT GMAIL. AND MOSTLY, UM, I WISH THE REST OF THE VOLUNTEERS WHO'VE BEEN SO INSTRUMENTAL AND PARTNERS OF OURS WHO HELPED ADMINISTER VACCINES AND, AND AMPLIFY A MESSAGE, UM, WE'RE HERE TO SHARE IN THIS. AND I MEAN, I COULD GO DOWN A WHOLE ROLL CALL OF THEM, I WON'T RIGHT NOW, BUT I, HOPEFULLY THEY KNOW WHO THEY ARE, AND I THANK THEM CONSTANTLY, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. AND YOU'VE ALSO BEEN DOING IT IN SCHOOLS AND ALL OH, YEAH, YEAH. WITH PEDIATRIC VACCINES, BOOSTERS, YOU KNOW, YOU NAME IT. UM, IT'S, WE'RE, WE'RE A, YOU KNOW, ONE STOP SHOP AND, UH, FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AT THE MOMENT. AND AGAIN, THANKS TO, UM, PAUL AND EVERYONE HERE FOR ALLOWING US TO, UM, GET THIS OFF THE GROUND AND, AND KEEP IT GOING. THANK YOU. AND I JUST WANNA ALSO, UM, YOU KNOW, RECOGNIZE, UH, UH, THE GREENBERG NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CENTER BECAUSE THEY ARE REALLY AMAZING. YOU KNOW, I, I FEEL THAT THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, REALLY ONE OF THE BIGGEST ASSETS THAT WE HAVE IN, IN THE TOWN. THE HEALTH CENTER, UM, IS GIVING, UH, BOOSTER SHOTS WITHOUT APPOINTMENTS EVERY MONDAY AND WEDNESDAY FROM 10 TO THREE. I WAS, UM, AT THE HEALTH CENTER, JUST CHECKING IT OUT ON, UM, ON MONDAY. AND IT WAS, THERE WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE, YOU KNOW, GETTING THE VACCINES. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THE STAFF IS, YOU KNOW, I SORT OF APOLOGIZED BECAUSE I PUBLICIZED THE FACT THAT ANYBODY COULD GET THE VACCINE. SO THEY WERE, IT WAS LIKE OVERCROWDED WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE. BUT, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY DIDN'T MIND, THEIR STAFF IS REALLY DEDICATED. THEY'RE REALLY HARDWORKING. UH, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE SUCH A FANTASTIC ASSET. YOU KNOW, I WAS THINKING OF A NOT-FOR-PROFIT THAT, YOU KNOW, I THINK IS LIKE ONE OF THE BEST IN THE WHOLE, YOU KNOW, IN THE WHOLE THAT I'VE EVER WORKED WITH. AND THEY ARE DEFINITELY THE, THE ONE OF THE TOP TWO OR, OR OR THREE THAT I'VE EVER SEEN. I'M JUST LIKE, SO APPRECIATIVE AND SO GRATEFUL TO THEIR STAFF, UH, AND SO GLAD THEY'RE PART OF OUR TOWN. YES. AMEN. , THANK YOU. SO IF YOU HAVEN'T GOTTEN YOUR VACCINE, UH, PLEASE, UH, STOP BY AT THE HEALTH CENTER ON MONDAY OR, OR WEDNESDAY. AND IT ONLY TAKES, IT DOESN'T TAKE A LONG TIME, AND I DON'T THINK YOU'RE GOING TO, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU'LL, YOU COULD SAVE YOUR LIFE. SO IT'S REALLY IMPORTANT. NEXT, UM, I WAS SORT OF THINKING, YOU KNOW, I WAS, UH, THINKING, UM, AS I WAS DRIVING HERE, THERE'S OVER A HUNDRED OR 50 OR 160,000 PEOPLE IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY WHO ARE SENIOR CITIZENS, PEOPLE OVER 65 YEARS OLD. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE. AND WESTCHESTER COUNTY EVERY YEAR, UM, CHOOSES, UM, TO NAME SOME OF THE BEST OF THE SENIORS, AND THEY PUT THEM THE SENIORS ON THEIR HALL OF FAME. UH, THIS YEAR THEY SELECTED TWO PEOPLE IN THE WHOLE, UH, IN THE WHOLE COUNTY AS THEIR NUMBER ONE SE AND NUMBER TWO SENIOR CITIZENS IN THE ENTIRE COUNTY. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, JUST NOT TO NAME DROP, BUT, UM, . BUT, UM, BUT YOU KNOW, I, I KNOW LLOYD COURT AND, UH, AND LLOYD COURT WAS NAMED THE NUMBER ONE SENIOR CITIZEN IN WESTCHESTER COUNTY THIS YEAR. UM, AND, YOU KNOW, IT REALLY, UH, SHOULDN'T SURPRISE US. HE REALLY PROBABLY SHOULD BE THE NUMBER ONE SENIOR CITIZEN IN THE WHOLE STATE, OR MAYBE IN THE WHOLE NATION BECAUSE, UH, LLOYD HAS DONE, YOU KNOW, SO, SO MUCH. HE'S, UM, A RETIRED SENIOR BANKING TECHNOLOGY ANALYST. UM, HE'S BEEN THE HEAD OF THE PARKWAY GARDENS, UH, CIVIC ASSOCIATION. UM, HE'S SERVED ON, UM, VERY, UH, ON NUMEROUS BOARDS. UM, HE'S A CHAIR OF THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY [00:15:01] COMMITTEE. UM, HAS SERVED AS, UM, CHAIR OF THE POLICE COMMUNITY ADVISORY COMMISSION. HE WAS PRESENT OF THE OLD GUARD OF WESTCHESTER, EVEN THOUGH MANY PEOPLE THINK HE'S TOO YOUNG TO BE PART OF THE OLD GUARD . UM, HE'S A BELL RINGER FOR THE SALVATION ARMY. I MENTIONED THE PARKWAY, UH, GARDEN CIVIC ASSOCIATION HAS BEEN PRESIDENT. HE WAS A MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL OF GREENBURG CIVIC ASSOCIATION. UM, HE'S BEEN INVOLVED IN THE GREENBERG CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT COMMITTEE. UM, HE SERVED, UM, YEARS AGO ON, UM, THE GREENBERG BUDGET OVERSIGHT COMMISSION, THE CHATTERTON HILL CHURCH. UM, AND HE'S JUST BEEN A CONSTANT ADVOCATE HELPING, UH, FIGHT FOR UNDERSERVED, UNDERSERVED YOUNG PEOPLE, ADULTS, SENIORS. UH, HE HELPED THE THEATER YOUNG COMMUNITY CENTER GET A 28 PASSENGER, A D A COMPLIANT BUS FOR OUR SENIORS, AND PROVING ACCESS TO CREATIVE PROGRAMS TO YOUTH AND PRESERVED OPEN SPACE AND DEVELOP IT DEVELOPED A, A BETTER PARK SYSTEM TO, UH, BETTER, UH, BENEFIT LOWER INCOME FAMILIES. UM, WE COULD GO ON AND ON NEXT YEAR, YOU'RE GONNA SEE, UH, A SIDEWALK ON HILLSIDE AVENUE. AND, UH, WHO WAS RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT? YOU KNOW, LLOYD, UM, UM, HE WORKED ON GETTING LANDMARK STATUS FOR THE HOME OF GORDON PARKS. UM, SO I, THIS IS JUST LIKE, UH, NOT EVEN DOING JUSTICE, BECAUSE HE'S DONE A LOT MORE. SO, UM, TODAY, UH, MEMBERS OF, UH, THE TOWN BOARD AND I ARE DECLARING DECEMBER 8TH LLOYD COURT DAY IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG. AND, AND SINCE IT'S A HOLIDAY, WE'RE GONNA CANCEL THE REST OF THE TOWN BOARD MEETING. SO, UM, SO, UM, SO, SO, SO GOOD. SO, UM, I'M GONNA NOW GIVE YOU THE, UM, PROCLAMATION AND THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR ALL YOUR SERVICE TO OUR, OUR TOWN AND AND COMMUNITY. AND I KNOW THERE'S PEOPLE FROM PARKWAY GARDENS, SO FEEL THAT I DIDN'T DO ENOUGH JUSTICE BY, UH, THANK YOU. BY PUTTING ALL YOUR ACCOMPLISHMENTS HERE. THANK YOU. UM, PAUL KLEER, OUR TOWN SUPERVISOR, MARY, JUST ADD THAT BEHIND EVERY GREAT MAN IS AN AMAZING WOMAN. WILL GLEN COURT PLEASE COME FORWARD TO JOIN OUR HUSBAND AT THE PODIUM ONE COURT. ALL RIGHT. THIS IS FUNNY. DO HIN, DO I KNOW HER? , MORE IMPORTANTLY, SHE KNOWS YOU. YEAH. , MY ROOMMATE IS JUST BEING SILLY. LOOK AT, LOOK AT THE CAMERA. ROOMMATE. LOOK AT THE CAMERA. WELL, SHOULD I ESCORT HER BACK TO THE NOT L COURT, BUT ESCORT HER? ? OKAY. DID, THIS IS A PROCLAMATION, ISN'T IT? I GUESS I DESERVED IT. LONG TIME AGO. UH, OH. WELL, AT THIS POINT, I WOULD SAY GOOD EVENING, MR. PAUL. FINER, OOPS, EXCUSE THAT. SUPERINTENDENT. SUPERVISOR. SUPERVISOR. PAUL FINER. WHY YOU GET A GREAT WOMAN BEHIND YOU, . AMAZING WOMAN. YEAH. MEMBERS OF THE GREENBERG TONGUE BOARD, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, THERE IS SO MUCH I CAN SAY, BUT I REALIZE THE NEED TO BE BRIEFED. IT'S SNOWING OUTSIDE. IT IS INDEED AN HONOR TO RECEIVE THIS UNEXPECTED RECOGNITION FOR MY ATTENTION, FOR AN ACTIONS OR CONTRIBUTIONS I HAVE MADE TO MY COMMUNITY AND TO MY BELOVED TONGUE OF GREENBERG. WHILE MUCH [00:20:01] HAS BEEN WRITTEN ABOUT HISTOR, HISTORIC NEIGHBORHOOD, AND ITS FORMER FAMOUS RESIDENTS, I WANT TO PAY RESPECT AND GRATITUDE TO THE MANY ORDINARY PEOPLE WHO CALL PARKWAY GARDENS. HOMES LIKE THE TEACHERS, NURSES, SMALL BUSINESSMEN, CAREGIVERS, POSTAL SERVICE WORKERS, GM PLANT MEMBERS, AND EMPLOYEES, ALL WHO CONTRIBUTE TO MAINTAINING THE BEAUTY OF PARKWAY GARDENS. MY FAMILY AND I HAVE CALLED HOME FOR APPROXIMATELY FIVE DECADES. WOW. IT'S OUR VILLAGE. AND IT TAKES A, A VILLAGE TO RAISE A CHILD. YES. SORRY. OUR CHILDREN GREW UP IN A SAFE, WARM ENVIRONMENT WITH SURROGATE AUNTS AND UNCLES. TOO MANY TO MENTION GRANDPARENTS LIKE MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, THE THE ROBINSONS KID, AND SO ON. WE ARE ALWAYS MINDFUL AND GRATEFUL THAT MY CAR TOOK A WRONG TURN AND FOUND MYSELF IN PARKWAY GARDENS BY, BY BO B*****K AND NEIGHBORHOOD. YES, THERE WAS STILL LITTLE FARMING AREAS THERE. I BECAME THE OWN OWNER OF 1 23 SOUTH ROAD, DESPITE REDLINING IS EQUALLY PROVIDENTIAL, BUT I WILL SPARE THAT DETAIL FOR ANOTHER TIME I AFRAID TO HAVE IT. MY WIFE, GWEN AND I, YOUNG, INEXPERIENCED PARENTS OF RENEE, A TODDLER, WERE BLESSED TO BE EMBRACED, AIDING, AND SUPPORTED BY OUR NEIGHBORS WHO SOON BECAME FAMILY. I'M ALSO PLEASED NOW TO ACCEPT THIS AWARD ON BEHALF OF ALL THOSE WHO WORK TIRELESSLY, INCLUDING FORMER CIVIC ASSOCIATION PRESIDENTS AND THEIR BOARDS. SINCERE ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. AND THANKS TO THE CURRENT PARKWAY GARDENS PRESIDENT, DAWN, JEWEL WISE AND HER EXECUTIVE BOARD, DEBORAH BROOKS, MR. KEN JONES, KAREN GATSON, TAP, AND ED. OKAY, SHE'S THERE. SO I GOTTA CALL HER EMMA WIFE. HELL, ALL THEIR PARALLEL FOR THE PARALLEL, UNPARALLELED SUPPORT DURING MY LONG TENURE, MY HOPE IS TOGETHER THE VIGILANCE OF PARK GARDEN CIVIC ASSOCIATION AND THE COMMUNITY AT LARGE WILL CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN AND SUPPORT THE BEAUTY AND AMBIENCE OF PARKWAY GARDENS. NOT GENERALLY EXPECTED OF US. I PERSONALLY BELIEVE THAT NONE OF US COULD CHANGE OUR YESTERDAYS, BUT TOGETHER WE CAN CHANGE OUR TOMORROWS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. POWERFUL. LLOYD, DON'T SIT DOWN. LLOYD, DON'T SIT DOWN. DON'T SIT DOWN. UH, AT THIS TIME WE'D LIKE TO ASK MEMBERS OF THE PARKWAY GARDEN CIVIC ASSOCIATION TO COME FORWARD. THAT'S FINE. WHY THOSE TABLES? I DUNNO. [00:25:04] OKAY. TALK TO THE MICROPHONE TO THE MICRO. ALRIGHT. MM-HMM. . SO, ON BEHALF OF THE PARKWAY GARDEN CIVIC ASSOCIATION, WE HONOR YOU FOR YOUR TIRELESS EFFORT. WE HAVE A PLAQUE HERE THAT READS LLOYD COURT IN APPRECIATION FOR YOUR YEARS WORKING AS A COMMITTED, FIERCE, AND TIRELESS ADVOCATE FOR THE BETTERMENT OF THE PARKWAY GARDENS COMMUNITY. PARKWAY GARDEN CIVIC ASSOCIATION EXECUTIVE BOARD HONORS YOU 2021, YOU GOT MORE TO SAY. YEP. , I SALUTE YOU TODAY, TOMORROW, AND ALL THE TOMORROWS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ALL RIGHT, LLOYD. UM, THANK YOU MADELINE. OSHA WANTS TO PARTICIPATE BY ZOOM. WE HAVE HER. OKAY. SO, UM, NEXT, UM, COULD PEOPLE SEE HER ON THE SCREEN OR NO? OKAY. THE CHAIRS IN THE FRONT, EVERYBODY WHO IS STANDING UP IN THE BACK, I JUST WANNA MAKE YOU AWARE THAT THERE ARE SEATS UP FRONT. SO ALL THE ONES THAT DO NOT HAVE THE WHITE PIECE OF PAPER TAPED TO IT, YOU CAN SIT AT. SO PLEASE FEEL FREE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO STAND THROUGHOUT THE MEETING. YOU CAN SIT DOWN. THESE GUYS ARE . SO ARE WE READY YET? OKAY, NICK. HI. NEXT. UM, I'D LIKE TO, UM, RECOGNIZE, UH, MADELINE, OSHA, UM, WHO IS, UH, ALSO, UM, A RECIPIENT OF, UM, ONE OF THE HALL OF FAME AWARDS. I, UM, FIRST MET, UM, MADELINE AND HER HUSBAND WHEN I WAS IN HIGH SCHOOL. AND, UM, I, UM, REMEMBER ONE DAY, UM, LISTENING TO HER RADIO PROGRAM AND SOMEBODY WAS TALKING, AND I HAD NO IDEA, UH, WHAT THE PERSON WAS SAYING. UM, AND I COULDN'T UNDERSTAND THE PERSON, AND I FOUND OUT IT WAS ME. UM, UH, . I'LL NEVER FORGET THAT. AND SO, UH, MADELINE'S HUSBAND, UH, ROD ON INVITED ME TO, UM, UM, HIS HOUSE LIKE EVERY WEEK FOR A COUPLE YEARS, AND, UM, GAVE ME, UH, UH, WHY DON'T I SPEAKING CLASSES? AND, UM, GAVE ME A LOT OF ADVICE. AND, UM, I WANTED TO MENTION, BECAUSE I KNOW MADELINE, UM, SAID THAT, UM, HER, UH, GRANDCHILDREN ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, ARE, ARE LISTENING, UH, TO THIS PROGRAM. MADELINE, FOR, UM, DECADES HAS ATTENDED MANY, MANY MEETINGS OF, UH, OF THE TOWN BOARD. AND MOST OF THE TIME, UH, WHEN SHE SPEAKS, UH, SHE'S BEEN CRITICAL OF, UM, OF SOME OF OUR POLICIES. SO, SO, SO I WAS SORT OF THINKING, UH, TODAY, WHY ARE WE HONORING SOMEBODY WHO, FOR 40 YEARS, 30 YEARS OR MORE, HAS ATTENDED MANY, MANY MEETINGS, OBJECTING TO OUR POL, SOME OF OUR POLICIES ON LAND USE, COMING UP WITH CONSTRUCTIVE COMMENTS. AND I WAS THINKING, THIS IS WHAT DEMOCRACY IS ALL ABOUT. WE NEED PEOPLE LIKE MADELINE, OSHA, UH, IN THE COMMUNITY, UH, WHO WILL, UM, SHOW UP AT BOARD MEETINGS, EXPRESS THEIR VIEWS. UH, SHE'S ALWAYS BEEN ON, YOU KNOW, CONSTRUCTIVE. UH, SHE IS ALWAYS BEEN ARMED WITH, UM, WITH, WITH FACTS, UH, KNOWS THE ZONING LAWS AND THE PLANNING LAWS. UH, ALMOST WORD FOR WORD FOR WORD FOR WORD. UM, EVEN BEFORE, UM, I WAS ELECTED TO ANYTHING WHEN I WAS IN SCHOOL, SHE WOULD ATTEND MEETINGS OF, UH, OF, OF THE TOWN BOARD AND, AND EXPRESS HERSELF. AND, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES, UM, WHEN YOU'RE A CIVIC ACTIVIST AND A COMMUNITY LEADER, YOU MAY SPEAK ABOUT A MATTER. AND EVEN IF PEOPLE IN GOVERNMENT DON'T ALWAYS LISTEN, MAYBE FIVE YEARS LATER OR 10 YEARS LATER, LIKE YOU SAID EARLIER, BECOMES, BECOMES LAW. AND IT, IT, IT, YOU KNOW, IT CATCHES ON. SO, UM, MADELINE HAS BEEN INDUCTED LAST WEEK INTO THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY SENIOR CITIZEN HALL OF FAME. UM, UH, SHE'S BEING RECOGNIZED FOR HER OUTSTANDING ACCOMPLISHMENTS. UH, AS I MENTIONED, SHE HAS SPOKEN AT, UM, NUMEROUS MEETINGS FOR, FOR, FOR DECADES AT AT TOWN BOARD MEETINGS. SHE'S [00:30:01] A FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE EDGEMONT COMMUNITY COUNCIL. SHE WAS ALSO A RECIPIENT OF THE SILVER BOX AWARD, WHICH IS THE MOST, UH, PRESTIGIOUS AWARD GIVEN TO HER RESIDENT OF EDGEMONT FOR HER COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT. UM, HER HUSBAND, UM, ROD, UH, ALSO HAS BEEN VERY INVOLVED IN, UM, IN THE COMMUNITY. SADLY, HE PASSED AWAY, UM, UM, UH, IN RECENT, IN RECENT MONTHS. UM, SHE'S DEVOTED, YOU KNOW, NOT HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF TIME TO THE TOWN, BUT TENS OF THOUSANDS OF HOURS. AND THAT MIGHT BE AN UNDERSTATEMENT. AND, UM, SHE'S ALSO MOTIVATED MANY OTHER PEOPLE TO GET INVOLVED. AND SHE'S MONITORED TOWN BOARD MEETINGS. AND I THINK SHE, I KNOW THAT SHE'S MADE A POSITIVE DIFFERENCE IN THE LIVES OF OTHERS. AND I, AND I THINK ALL THE MEMBERS OF THE BOARD RECOGNIZE THE FACT THAT DEMOCRACY WORKS BEST WHEN THERE IS OVERSIGHT OF GOVERNMENT BY OUR CITIZENS. AND MADELINE HAS BEEN A ROLE MODEL FOR CITIZEN ACTIVISTS. UH, SHE'S CONSTRUCTIVE, RESPECTFUL, ARMED WITH FACTS AND PASSIONATE ABOUT THE ISSUES SHE FEELS, UH, STRONGLY ABOUT. SO WE'RE ALSO, UH, DECLARING TODAY AS MADELINE OSHA DAY IN, UM, YOU KNOW, IN, IN GREENBURG. AND SINCE I COMPLIMENTED YOU, THE EDGE ONE COMMUNITY COUNCIL SAID, OH, YOU'RE NOT INVITED BACK, . PAUL PAUL BEFORE, BEFORE MADELINE SPEAKS, I, I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ADD SOME THINGS ABOUT, ABOUT MADELINE THAT YOU HAVE NOT MENTIONED. I'VE SERVED AS, UH, BOARD TOWN BOARD LIAISON TO THE HISTORIC, HISTORIC LAND AND PRESERVATION BOARD, AND NOW HAS BEEN ITS CHAIR FOR MANY, MANY YEARS. I DON'T EVEN REMEMBER HOW MANY. AND, UM, SHE IS VERY, VERY DEDICATED TO PROTECT THE, UH, HISTORIC PLACES HERE IN GREENBERG. AND WE HAVE MANY, AND WE HEARD ABOUT ONE OF THEM TO THIS EVENING, AND THERE ARE MANY, MANY MORE. AND SHE'S DEDICATED. SHE AND HER BOARD HAVE DEDICATED SO MANY HOURS TO THIS. AND I WANNA THANK HER FOR ALL THE TIME THAT SHE HAS SPENT DOING THAT FOR, FOR THE TOWN, AND CONTINUES TO DO IT. AND WE APPRECIATE ALL HER EFFORTS. AND SO I'M, I'M VERY HAPPY FOR THIS AWARD TO HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO YOU AS WELL. I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENT. YOU, I'VE KNOWN MADELINE FOR QUITE A LONG TIME NOW THROUGH THE COUNCIL OF GREENBERG SIG ASSOCIATIONS, WHICH I SAT ON AS A PRESIDENT, AND THEN I WOULD SHOW UP OCCASIONALLY AS A COUNCIL MEMBER. UM, MADELINE CRITICIZED US QUITE A BIT, UH, THE BOARD BEFORE I GOT ON THERE. I, I WOULD EITHER SPEAK BEFORE OR AFTER, UH, ABOUT SOME OF THE BOARD POLICIES. UH, BUT ONE THING ABOUT, UH, MADELINE IS THAT IF SHE GOT UP AT THAT MICROPHONE, SHE ALWAYS WROTE OUT IN ADVANCE HER SPEECHES. I ALWAYS ADMIRED THAT. HOW, HOW, HOW COULD YOU TAKE THE TIME TO WRITE OUT YOUR SPEECHES? BUT THERE'S A SAYING THAT SAYS, I DIDN'T HAVE TIME TO MAKE IT SHORT. AND MADELINE TOOK, AND MADELINE TOOK THE TIME TO SAY WHAT SHE WANTED TO SAY, AND THAT WAS IT. IT WASN'T WHETHER OR NOT, OH, I GOT ANOTHER TWO MINUTES, LET ME STRETCH THIS OUT. UH, AND MORE OFTEN THAN NOT, IN MY OPINION, SHE WAS RIGHT IN WHAT SHE WAS SAYING FROM THE MICROPHONE. UH, I ALWAYS KNEW HOW MUCH TROUBLE WE WERE IN WHEN MADELINE GOT UP TO THE MICROPHONE AGAIN, SHE ALWAYS WROTE IT OUT, AND SHE WOULD COME UP WITH HER PAPER OR, OR A PAD, AND SHE WOULD HAVE A PEN IN HER HAND, AND THAT PEN WOULD TAP WHAT SHE WAS READING. AND THE MORE THAT PEN TAPPED, THE MORE I KNEW WE WERE IN TROUBLE, . AND SO, UH, JUST AN, AN AMAZING PERSON. AND, UM, AND SHE DOES, SHE CERTAINLY DESERVES THE AWARD. SO, MADELINE, WOULD YOU LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU? YES. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YEP. YES, YES, YES, WE CAN. YES. THANK YOU. I WANNA THANK COUNTY LEGISLATOR ALFREDA WILLIAMS FOR NOMINATING ME AND FOR THIS TOWN BOARD FOR RECOGNIZING YOU TONIGHT. YOU SAID SOME LOVELY THINGS I REALLY APPRECIATE. I ALSO MUST THANK MY THREE CHILDREN AND MY SEVEN GRANDCHILDREN WHO HAVE HEARD AND STILL HEAR, PROBABLY EVEN IN THEIR SLEEP. I HAVE A MEETING TONIGHT, . IT ALL STARTED WITH THE TOWN'S NEED FOR DOG . WHEN WE FIRST MOVED INTO THE TOWN 50 YEARS AGO, THE LATE MEN BETTMAN. AND I CRAFTED THE BEGINNINGS OF WHAT IS ON THE BOOKS TODAY. AND I'VE BEEN VOLUNTEERING EVER SINCE. I FOLLOW IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF MY GRANDMOTHER AND MY FATHER. OUR FAMILY HAS ALWAYS GIVEN BACK [00:35:01] MY LATE HUSBAND. AND I BELIEVE IN THE HEALTH, SAFETY, WELFARE AND QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ALL TOWN RESIDENTS. AND I THANK ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE GIVEN AND CONTINUE TO GIVE ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRACTICE WHAT WE PREACH. THANK YOU. THAT'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF, YOU TOOK THE TIME TO MAKE IT SHORT. SHOULD WE DO THE, UH, THE SIGNING NOW? THANK YOU. ARE WE DONE WITH THE OTHERS? UM, WE HAVE, UM, GOODMAN WANTED TO PHILIP SAY A FEW WORDS, BUT WHY DON'T YOU DO THE SIGNING RIGHT. WHAT ABOUT PHILIP CONE? PHILIP, UH, RIGHT. THAT'S GONNA TAKE A WHILE. THAT, UH, THAT'S ABOUT THE WATER. JUST FOR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, WHATEVER. YOU RIGHT. THAT'S GONNA TAKE A WHILE. SO IF WE'RE READY FOR SIGNING, WE CAN DO SIGNING. OKAY. NO. OKAY. SO WE'RE GONNA NOW HAVE A CEREMONIAL SIGNING OF RESOLUTION, TB, ONE TOWN OF GREENBURG RESOLUTION IN SUPPORT OF BLACK LIVES AND PRESENTATION TO THE WHITE PLAINS GREENBURG, N A A C P. UM, JANICE GRIFFITH, UH, IS PRESENT. UM, I'M WONDERING IF WE SHOULD DO THE SIGNING OVER THERE, BECAUSE MAYBE, SHOULD WE VOTE FIRST? SHOULD WE MOVE THE RESOLUTION? WE DID IT. WE DID. IT'S ALREADY BEEN APPROVED. WE DID. OKAY. RIGHT, JANICE? YES. . SO THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF WORK INVOLVED BECAUSE IT WAS A TWO PAGE RESOLUTION AND SIGNING ON THE SECOND PAGE, YOU WOULDN'T EVEN SEE IT FROM THE FIRST. SO THE RESOLUTION NOW IS JUST A LONGER PIECE OF PAPER, SO, GOT IT. SO YOU'LL SEE THE SIGNATURES WITH THE ENTIRE DOCUMENT, UH, WITH THE STAMP THAT IT'S BEEN APPROVED ALL ON ONE, ALL IN ONE, UH, ONE VIEW. WELL, TECHNICALLY IT'S BEEN AMENDED, RIGHT? SO SHOULD WE NO, IT HAS BEEN AMENDED. . NO, THE, THE WORDS HAVE NOT CHANGED. THE WORDS HAVE NOT CHANGED. WELL, NO, I UNDERSTAND THAT. BUT THE, BECAUSE THE FORMAT HAS CHANGED, I WAS WONDERING IF WE, IF A CEREMONIAL VOTE BEFORE WE CEREMONIALLY SIGN , YOU KNOW, FOR, IT'S NOT A, IT WOULDN'T BE AMENDED. IT WOULD BE, UH, UM, AFFIRMED. REFORMATTED OR, UH, AFFIRMED. AFFIRMED, AFFIRMED, AFFIRMED. WELL, WE COULD RATIFY WHAT WE'VE ALREADY VOTED ON. YEAH, WHY DON'T WE DO THAT? SO, UH, COME LOUDER, LOUDER SO WE CAN HEAR IT. UH, I MOVED RATIFY, OR I, I, I MOVED TO RATIFY, UH, T UH, WHAT IS IT? T TB ONE. TB ONE. TB ONE. UH, FORMALLY VOTED ON DECEMBER 13TH. 2021. NO, NO, NO, NO. NOVEMBER 22ND. NOVEMBER 22ND. OH NO, I, I I'M SORRY. I'M, I MOVE. IT'S NOT ON, IT'S NOT ON HERE. IT'S NOT ON HERE. OH. OH, OKAY. I, I MOVED TO RATIFY TV ONE, UM, UH, FORMALLY VOTED ON NOVEMBER 22ND. SECOND 2021 SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. AS THIS AMENDMENT HAS BEEN, HAS, AS THIS RESOLUTION HAS BEEN VOTED ON, I JUST WISH TO, UM, EXPRESS A CONCERN ABOUT THIS RESOLUTION. I AM A LIFELONG MEMBER OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG, A GRADUATE OF ONE OF THE SCHOOLS IN GREENBURG, A GRADUATE OF A HISTORICALLY BLACK COLLEGE UNIVERSITY IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA, A GRADUATE OF SUNY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION WITH MANY YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE IN THE FIELD OF PUBLIC SERVICE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION AND AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY. THERE, THERE IS A CLAUSE IN THIS RESOLUTION, CLAUSE NUMBER FIVE, THAT USES THE PHRASE BLACK RACISM. I BRING THIS TO THE ATTENTION OF THE PUBLIC BECAUSE THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BLACK RACISM. IT IS AN OXYMORON. IT IS A CONTRADICTION. BLACK RACISM HAS NOT BEEN PRACTICED FOR 400 YEARS. SYSTEMIC RACISM HAS BEEN PRACTICED FOR 400 YEARS, BUT THIS CLAUSE IN THE RESOLUTION THAT IS GOING TO BE CELEBRATED TONIGHT NEEDS TO BE AMENDED. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BLACK RACISM. IF YOU GOOGLE ANY DEFINITIONS OF RACISM BY AMERICAN DEFINITION, BY OXFORD UNIVERSITY DEFINITION, BY ANY HISTORIC HISTORIAN OR JOURNALISM OR JOURNALIST DEFINITION OF RACISM, THEY, YOU'LL FIND THAT THERE IS NO USE OF THE WORD BLACK RACISM BECAUSE IT DOES NOT EXIST YET. IT IS IN THE CLAUSE NUMBER FIVE OF THIS RESOLUTION. [00:40:01] WHILE THIS RESOLUTION IS MOMENTOUS AND MONUMENTAL IN ITS ORIGIN AND IN ITS MEANING AS A STATEMENT FOR THE TOWN, THERE IS THIS CLAUSE THAT NEEDS TO BE AMENDED AS THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BLACK RACISM. AND SO, I APPEAL TO THE LEADERSHIP OF THE N A C P AND TO ANYONE ELSE WHO IS WITNESS TO THE CELEBRATION OF THIS RESOLUTION, TO CHALLENGE THE CHANGING OF THE WORDING. PERHAPS THAT CLAUSE MEANT TO SAY, THIS RESOLUTION ADDRESSES THE RACISM TOWARDS BLACK AMERICANS IN THIS COUNTRY. INSTEAD, IT STATES THIS RESOLUTION ADDRESSES BLACK RACISM. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BLACK RACISM. BLACK PEOPLE HAVE NOT HAD THE POWER TO APPLY THE RACIST TREATMENT AND OPPRESSION UPON BLACK PEOPLE FOR THE PAST 400 YEARS. THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS BLACK RACISM. AND THIS RESOLUTION NEEDS TO BE AMENDED TO CORRECT THAT CLAUSE. THANK YOU. I GOT A QUESTION. NO, A QUESTION. WHY NOT? NO, THERE'S A, A MOTION ON THE FLOOR, I BELIEVE. MOTION TO RATIFY. CORRECT. OKAY. OKAY. WELL, WE HAVE A, WE HAVE A SIGNING CEREMONY THAT HAS TO TAKE PLACE. CORRECT. ALRIGHT. WE OBJECT TO THE SIGNING CEREMONY. OKAY. ANY OBJECTION? WELL, THE, THE NAACP IS HERE AND THEY'LL SPEAK ON BEHALF COMING UP. THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE, OF WHO DRAFTED THE RESOLUTION ARE HERE. AND YOU CAN SPEAK TO THEM ABOUT THAT. SO YOU CAN JUST DRAFT SOMETHING AND DO WHAT YOU WANT IN GREENVILLE. NO, THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE DOING. THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS BLACK RACISM. WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T SPEAK OUT. YOU'LL GET YOUR CHANCE. OKAY. I'LL SIGN THE BLACK WHITE FOLK LIVE. THAT'S WHAT MR. LAWSON, SAY SOMETHING. YOU CAN SAY ANYTHING YOU WANT. I'M FROM VIRGINIA. YOU CAN SAY WHAT YOU WANT TO SAY ASSISTANT. ANYBODY WHO SPEAKS, SPEAKS GRAB. AND I WILL. MR. BOWDEN, PLEASE. WHAT? MR. BOWDEN? I CAN'T HEAR WHERE YOU GOT A MASK ON MR. BOWDEN. SHE A MASK. AND YOU DIDN'T STOP HER. YOU WON'T STOP ME EITHER. IT'S TIME. IF YOU DON'T HAVE A MASK, I SAW HER ON THE PHONE. IF YOU'RE HERE AND YOU GO HOME AND YOU GET ON THE PHONE, PLEASE STAY THIS MEETING BECAUSE YOU WEREN'T HERE. WHY DID THIS MEETING START LATE? WE'RE ENTITLED FOR IT TO BE STARTED ON TIME. YOU GO. UM, HI. WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO? ARREST ME? BECAUSE SHE ARREST HER TOO. 'CAUSE SHE DIDN'T HAVE A MASK. [00:45:01] WHY SHOULD I CALM DOWN? THEY'VE BEEN DOING THIS FOR YEARS AND IT'S ILLEGAL. I CAN'T HEAR WHERE THEY GOT A MASK ON. TAKE THE MASK OFF. STUFFAND. ALRIGHT, WE'LL NOT GO WITH YOU. I'M ENTITLED TO ME CASE. I'LL PUT MY MASK ON WHEN I SIT HERE. YOU JUST, IN CASE YOU DIDN'T HEAR THAT, HE SAID TO THE CHIEF, THIS IS A PERFORMANCE. YOU GOTTA KNOW THAT. THAT'S RIGHT. THIS YOU CAME IN LATE AND PERFORMED. COME ON. YES. AND THEY HAVE MEETING. NO, I WON'T GO OUTSIDE. THESE ARE PEOPLE HE COULDN'T HEAR EITHER. STOP TESTING. CAN YOU HEAR ME OKAY? CAN YOU HEAR ME? WE HAVE TO REMOVE MR. BO FROM THE MEETING. CAN YOU HEAR ME? CAN YOU HEAR ME? THANK YOU SO MUCH. I'M LAUGHING. I MEAN, THIS IS, THIS IS NOT ENTERTAINMENT CANNOT STAY. SENIOR MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, THE CITY CLERK ON BEHALF OF THE NATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR A BASKETBALL OF COLORED PEOPLE, THE WHITE PLAINS GREENBURG BRANCH. WE ARE SO APPRECIATIVE FOR YOU TAKING THIS MAJOR STEP IN ESTABLISHING A BLUEPRINT FOR WHICH WE HOPE OTHER MUNICIPALITIES AND THE PEOPLE OF THE WESTCHESTER COUNTY CAN COME TOGETHER. THIS IS A FIRST WE DONE, IT HAD NOT BEEN DONE IN NEW YORK CITY, ROCKLAND PUTNAM, ANY OTHER COUNTY. BUT YOU DARE TO MAKE THAT FIRST STEP. NO, IT'S NOT PERFECT FOR WE ARE NOT PERFECT. NO, WE KNOW WE HAVE NOT DONE EVERYTHING THAT WE NEED TO DO, BUT WE KNOW THERE'S MORE WORK TO DO. BUT IT'S A CHALLENGE FOR US AS A COMMUNITY OF A FAITHFUL. IT'S NOT ABOUT ETHNICITY, IT'S NOT ABOUT SOCIAL STATUS. IT'S ABOUT COMING TOGETHER AS A PEOPLE TO IMPROVE AND, AND STRENGTHEN WHAT WE CALL THE BELOVED COMMUNITY. AGAIN, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH ON BEHALF OF OUR PRESIDENT, JANICE GRIFFIN, AND THE REST OF THE MEMBERS, GOD BLESS YOU AND MAY HEAVEN AND SMILE UPON YOU. THANK YOU. JUST TO BE CLEAR, REVEREND SMITH, THANK YOU, EVERYONE WHO DRAFTED THE LANGUAGE OF THE RESOLUTION, WAS THAT THE NAACP OR SOMEONE ELSE? THE NAACP DRAFTED THE LANGUAGE. THAT'S RIGHT. RIGHT. THANK YOU EVERYONE. REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'VE DONE AND YOUR WILLINGNESS TO WORK WITH US AND MAKE THIS, UH, MAKE OUR VISION A REALITY. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WELCOME. WELL, YOU MADE IT EASY. YOU'RE WELCOME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND IF YOU DON'T MIND, SINCE THAT'S OUR ORIGINAL, WE'LL TAKE IT BACK FOR A MOMENT AND THEN WE'LL MAKE COLOR COPIES OF IT AND WE'LL MAKE SURE YOU GET ONE. YEAH, SURE. WHATEVER. WANT CAN WE COME UP, COME TO THE FRONT ROOM? YEAH, GO. LET'S COME UP. SURE. CAN WE, YEAH. WHY DON'T WE COME FROM A BEHIND THAT TABLE. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. I DON'T HAVE MY LICENSE. ALL RIGHT. SMILE. WE THOUGHT YOU COULD. ALL THOSE PICTURES ARE TOOK. THANK YOU SO MUCH. MEMBERS OF THE N A A C P I, MEMBERS OF THE N A C P. I JUST WISH TO SAY MY GREAT-GREAT UNCLE WAS ONE OF THE FOUNDERS OF THE N A A C P. WILLIAM EDWARD BERG. HART DU BOIS. SO I AM NOT CRITICIZING THIS RESOLUTION AT ALL. I'M ONLY ASKING THAT YOU AMEND THAT PARTICULAR CLAUSE THAT STATES BLACK RACISM, WHICH IS AN OXYMORON. BLACK RACISM DOES NOT EXIST. [00:50:02] GREAT. OKAY, NEXT. START THE MEETING AGAIN. UH, LYNN, YOU WANNA SAY SOME THINGS ABOUT THE, UH, HUMAN RIGHTS COMMITTEE? WE'RE SUPPOSED TO WAIT FOR FRANCIS. HE'S MAKING, HE'S MAKING A COPY. HE'S MAKING A COPY. THIS IS JUST, SHE'S MAKING A PRESENTATION ON THE HUMAN RIGHTS. MAKING A, YOU HAVE TO WAIT. IF WE CAN DO A WHOLE PRESENTATION, FRANCIS, JUST WANT TO GIVE SOMETHING TO THE NAACP. SO GIVE US LIKE TWO SECONDS. OH, OKAY. CALL SOMEONE MEETING. WHEN POLICE OFFICERS TAKE A, THIS IS A TURN THE CAMERAS OFF. UNDERSTAND. IT'S NOT A, IT'S JUST, IT'S JUST REALLY, IT'S ESCORTING THEM TO, IT'S NOT ARREST. IT'S, IT'S BASICALLY JUST ESCORTING PEOPLE. I THINK THAT NO, THEN THAT'S GONNA BE, I THINK THAT'S WHAT HE WANTS. I MEAN, I, I THINK THAT MAY, MAYBE WE SHOULD JUST SAY THAT IN THE FUTURE. ANYONE WHO'S THE FUTURELY? THAT'S THE, TO PERFORMANCE. NO, NO. I'M PART OF THE AGENDA. I GUESS. I MEAN, I, I JUST FOUND THIS OUT. OVER THERE. EXCUSE ME. WHY WE WAITING? BECAUSE WE ARE FINISHING UP THE RESOLUTION FOR THE NA BECAUSE SHEHAN AIN'T HERE. WE CAN'T DO NOTHING. HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH MR. XI. HE'S DUE WELL, HE SHOULD, HE WAITING FOR HIM TO COME IN. NOW WE GOT TO PAUSE FOR 20 MINUTES AND SET HERE MAKING A PUBLIC WAY. AND THIS IS ORGANIZED. IF THIS IS OVER OUT, I'D HATE TO SEE SOME PIGS IN THE YEAH, WE ARE. I AGREE WITH YOU. HE WANTS NO, I THINK, I THINK THAT WE SHOULD, IT'S, I THINK, CAN I MAKE A SUGGESTION? YES, SIR. MY SUGGESTION WOULD BE THAT WE SHOULD SAY, THESE ARE THE RULES. ANYONE WHO DISRUPTS IN THE FUTURE, WE'RE GONNA STOP THE MEETING. WE'RE GONNA TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK. AND THEN WHILE WE TAKE A BREAK, THEN WE'RE, YOU KNOW, THEN YOU SHOULD SAY YOU NEED, BUT THAT'S OFF CAMERA. I THINK SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, I THINK THIS WAY STARTS YELLING AND SCREAMING. THE, BUT YEAH, BUT THAT'S WHAT PEOPLE WANT. YOU ARE GIVING THEM. [00:55:04] THERE'S NO FUTURE. I MEAN, HE'S SPREADING CONTAGION, YELLING AND YELLING NO LESS WHILE DOING IT. IT, IT'S WRONG. AND HE SAYS THAT HE'S DOING IT AS A PERFORMANCE AND HE IS LAUGHING ABOUT IT. YEAH. THAT'S WHY I THINK RECESSING, OH, UH, TOWN BOARD IS NOT GONNA TOLERATE ANY DISRUPTIONS OF MEETINGS. PEOPLE COULD EXPRESS THEMSELVES, THEY COULD CRITICIZE US, BUT AT MEETINGS, YOU KNOW, WHAT HAPPENED WITH MR. BODEN IS NOT ACCEPTABLE ANYMORE. SO THE RULES GOING FORWARD IS NOT ON EFFECTIVE. THE RULES GOING FOR IT EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY ARE THIS, IF ANYBODY DISRUPT THE MEETING, WE'RE GONNA TAKE A FIVE MINUTE BREAK. WE'RE GONNA GO OFF CAMERA, AND THE PERSON WHO'S DISRUPT DISRUPTING THE MEETING IS GONNA BE ESCORTED OUT. AND, UM, AGAIN, WE DON'T WANT TO DO THIS. WE WANT TO HEAR FROM PEOPLE, BUT PEOPLE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THAT IT'S UNLAWFUL TO, UM, UH, TO DISRUPT THE MEETING. UH, WE NEED EVERYBODY TO WEAR A MASK. MR. BODEN, YOU HAVE TO PUT THE MASK BACK ON. UH, BECAUSE WE, UH, HERE'S A MAN TELLING ME TO WEAR A MASK WITHOUT HIS NOSE BEING COVERED. RIGHT. COME ON. YOU JUST HAD YOUR NOSE EXPOSED. YOU'RE TELLING ME TO LEARN. YOU KNOW WHAT, THIS IS, THIS IS TOTALLY FOR A RECESS. WE'RE WE'RE TAKING A RECESS. WE'RE TAKING A RECESS. WE'RE TAKING A RECESS. IDIOT. A IS HE THE GUY'S DOING, HE'S TELLING ME TO COME ON MY NOSE. YOU'RE ALL SET. [ PUBLIC COMMENT Advance signup via PublicComment@GreenburghNY.com is required. See instructions on first page. A three minute limit per speaker will be strictly enforced. No interruptions by Town Board members, the Town Clerk or the public will be permitted. Any questions on agenda items should be asked at this time. Department Heads have the option of leaving the meeting following Public Comment. Therefore, if anyone has questions that are related to resolutions/items on the agenda involving a specific Department Head, those questions should be raised at this time] GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY. UM, I'M THE LYNN GOODMAN, THE CHAIR OF THE GREENBERG HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE. I WILL TRY TO SPEAK LOUDLY AND CLEARLY SO PEOPLE CAN HEAR ME. THIS IS OUR FIRST EVER YEAR END REPORT FOR THE HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE. WE'VE BEEN AROUND, AROUND SIX YEARS AND PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY HAVE SAID THAT THEY WANNA KNOW MORE ABOUT WHAT WE DO AND GET MORE INVOLVED. SO I'M GONNA SHARE SOME OF THE STUFF WE'VE DONE OVER THE LAST YEAR. THE COMMITTEE HAS NINE APPOINTED MEMBERS AND MANY MORE COMMUNITY PARTICIPANTS WHO DRIVE OUR INITIATIVES. COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS LET US KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON. LAST YEAR, BECAUSE OF COVID, OUR MEETINGS WENT FROM LIVE TO VIRTUAL AND THAT'S MADE THEM MORE ACCESSIBLE TO MORE PEOPLE IN THE TOWN, WHICH WAS A RARE BENEFIT OF THE COVID PANDEMIC. WE HAVE A MISSION STATEMENT, WHICH YOU CAN FIND ON OUR FACEBOOK PAGE. GREENBURG HUMAN RIGHTS. WE'RE A FORUM WHERE TOWN RESIDENTS DISCUSS HUMAN RIGHTS CONCERNS, PROPOSE ACTION PLANS, AND ADVISE TOWN GOVERNMENT ON WHAT THE RESIDENTS ARE ASKING FOR. WE ORGANIZE EVENTS, ADVOCATE AND EDUCATE. OUR WORK IS GROUNDED ON THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS, WHICH IS THE LIST OF RIGHTS THAT ALL HUMANS ON THE PLANET SHOULD BE GUARANTEED AS DECLARED BY THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY. DECEMBER 10TH, 1948, WHICH WAS 73 YEARS AGO THIS WEEK. SO THIS PAST YEAR, THE COMMUNITY TOLD US ABOUT VANDALISM AT THE BLACK LIVES MATTER SIGN HATE GROUP STICKERS IN TARRYTOWN AND SLEEPY HOLLOW. LYNN, YOU GOTTA KEEP YOUR MASK ON. OKAY. THANK YOU. FOOD INSECURITY DUE TO COVID JOB LOSSES, COMMUNICATION PROBLEMS BETWEEN TENANTS AND MANAGEMENT AT THE GREENBERG PUBLIC HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, ILLEGALLY FLAWED AND UNFAIR BAR OUT POLICY AT THE GREENBERG PUBLIC HOUSING UNITS THAT KEPT FAMILIES APART FOR YEARS WITHOUT GOOD CAUSE VERBAL ATTACKS ON QUEER AND TRANS RESIDENTS OF THE RIVER TOWNS. AND MORE. [01:00:01] WE LOBBIED FOR CHANGES. TRIED TO GIVE A VOICE TO PEOPLE WHO WERE SUFFERING AND SOMETIMES WE ACTUALLY MADE A DIFFERENCE A FEW MONTHS AGO. GREENBURG HOUSING AUTHORITY THROUGHOUT ITS OLD BAR OUT POLICY AND INSTITUTED A NEW FAIR POLICY. THANK YOU TO THE GREENBERG HOUSING MANAGEMENT. FOR THAT, WE'VE CREATED A HOUSING SUBCOMMITTEE FOR RESIDENT TO ADVOCATE FOR RESIDENTS WITH HOUSING PROBLEMS. I KNOW SOME OF YOU HERE HAVE HEARD SOME OF THOSE PROBLEMS 'CAUSE THEY'VE BEEN PRESENTED TO THE TOWN BOARD AND WE'RE GOING TO KEEP ADVOCATING FOR THEM AND BRINGING THEIR PROBLEMS TO LIGHT SO THAT THEY CAN BE HELPED BECAUSE, UM, THEY OFTEN DON'T HAVE A VOICE. WE VOICED OUR SUPPORT FOR THE NAACP BLACK LIVES MATTER ANTI-DISCRIMINATION RESOLUTION. AND TONIGHT WE CELEBRATE ITS PASSAGE. WE HOSTED A WEBINAR ON LOCAL BLACK HISTORY FEATURING OUR TOWN CLERK, JUDITH BEVILLE, AND SOME OTHER PEOPLE ON THE BOARD AND OTHER PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY. WE CREATED AN L G B T Q GREENBURG PRIDE SUBCOMMITTEE. HELD A PRIDE RALLY IN TARRYTOWN, CONDUCTED AN L G B T Q NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR GREATER UNDERSTANDING OF THE GROWING QUEER AND TRANS COMMUNITY. IN GREENBURG. WE VOICED OUR SUPPORT FOR THE BLACK LIVES MATTER SIGN MOVEMENT, WHICH HAS NOT YET HAPPENED, AND THE BLACK LIVES MATTER MURAL, WHICH IS GOING STRONG AND WHICH WILL BRING HONOR TO OUR COMMUNITY. WHEN IT'S DONE, WE CONNECTED ACTIVISTS TO FREE RESTAURANT PREPARED FOODS DURING THE COVID SHUTDOWN FOR PEOPLE WHO HAD LOST THEIR JOBS IN 2022. WE'LL CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR GENDER EQUITY, BETTER WAYS TO DETER SEXUAL HARASSMENT, HATE SPEECH INTOLERANCE, ANTISEMITISM, AND DISCRIMINATION. WE'LL LOOK FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO EDUCATE THE COMMUNITY ON RACISM AND ISSUES UNIQUE TO OUR L G B T Q RESIDENTS. WE'LL URGE OUR TOWN GOVERNMENT TO TRAIN ALL OF ITS EMPLOYEES AND VOLUNTEERS ON DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION. WE NEED TO HEAR FROM THE COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY FROM PEOPLE SUFFERING IN SILENCE, WHO FEEL THAT OTHERS HAVE NOT LISTENED TO THEM. THE MORE WE KNOW ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS HERE, THE MORE WE CAN DO. WE TRY TO CREATE A SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE SPACE. SO I URGE PEOPLE WHO ARE LISTENING, UH, PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY THINGS. WE USUALLY MEET THE THIRD THURSDAY EACH MONTH. AND IF YOU WANT MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE EMAIL ME. MY EMAIL ADDRESS IS LYNN IDAGOODMAN@HOTMAIL.COM. THAT'S L Y N N I D A G O O D M A N@HOTMAIL.COM. RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, THE CHAIR OF THE GREENBERG HUMAN RIGHTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, LYNN. THANK YOU. UH, NEXT. THAT'S QUITE A BIT. THANK YOU, LYNN. NEXT WE'RE GONNA HEAR [ To consider a rate increase for the Consolidated Water District #1] FROM, UH, BOTH, UH, PON SENIOR CONSULTANT, CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT AND RICH FUND COMMISSIONER PUBLIC WORKS SUPERVISOR, FINER TOWN BOARD MEMBERS. IF I COULD, UM, JUST MAKE A BRIEF REQUEST. I THINK THE INTENT IS FOR MR. PONS REMARKS TO BE A PART OF THE, UH, PUBLIC HEARING ASSOCIATED WITH THE WATER DISTRICT. SO I WOULD REQUEST THAT THE PRESENTATION NOT OCCUR NOW AND HAVE IN CONNECTION, HAVE THAT PRESENTATION DONE IN CONNECTION WITH THAT PUBLIC HEARING. SO IMPORTANT, SHOULD WE JUST OPEN THE DO THIS PUBLIC HEARING OUT OF, OUT OF WATER? UM, YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE HEAR THE PRESENTATION AND THEN HAVE THE PUBLIC HEARING. SO, SO, ONE SECOND. SO, GARRETT, ARE YOU SAYING THAT THIS, THERE'S BEEN A PREVIOUS PUBLIC HEARING AND THIS PRESENTATION SHOULD BE A PART OF THAT PREVIOUS PUBLIC HEARING? NO, THE ONE THAT I DON'T BELIEVE THIS IS A CONTINUATION. I BELIEVE THIS IS THE FIRST PUBLIC HEARING. I I THINK WE SHOULD HEAR THE PRESENTATION NOW. OKAY. AND THEN WE'RE GOING, WE CAN HEAR FROM THE PEOPLE CAN ASK QUESTIONS. WE'RE NOT GONNA CLOSE THE HEARING ANYWAY TODAY. THE PRESENTATION HAS TO BE PART OF THE PUBLIC. IT NEEDS TO BE PART OF IT. SO WHY DON'T WE JUST OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. THAT'S WHAT I'M OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING AND HEAR THE PRESENTATION. SO THERE'S A MOTION TO CONSIDER THE RATE INCREASE FOR THE CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT NUMBER ONE. AND YOU'RE ASKING FOR A MOTION TO OPEN THAT PUBLIC HEARING? YES. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. OKAY, NOW I THINK WE'RE READY. THANK YOU. HONORABLE TOWN BOARD, UH, TOWN CLERK JUDITH VILLE, TOWN ATTORNEY THOMAS LOES. RICH, KEEP YOUR VOICE UP, PLEASE. OH, I'M SORRY. UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR HEARING US. UM, THIS IS A VERY, VERY IMPORTANT, UH, HEARING. UH, THIS IS TO BASICALLY KEEP IN PLACE AND UP AND RUNNING THE CONSOLIDATED, UH, WATER DISTRICT. NUMBER ONE. UH, BASICALLY THE TOWN, THE BOARD OWNS TWO PUMP STATIONS THAT ARE NOW INTERCONNECTED. THANKS TO A VERY BIG, UH, PUBLIC WORKS PROJECT. YOU OWN SIX WATER TANKS AND ABOUT 150 MILES OF WATER PIPE IN THE TOWN THAT BASICALLY SERVE EVERY [01:05:01] RESIDENT IN TOWN WITH SAFE DRINKING WATER. UM, TONIGHT, AND AS A PART OF THIS HEARING, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE, UH, MR. PHIL RATIS OR BILL, UH, SAPONE WITH RATIS. THEIR COMPANY, UH, EXAMINES, EXAMINES THE WATER RATES, GUIDES US AND HELPS US SET THE, THE, THE RATES MOVING FORWARD. THEIR, UH, COMPANY SERVICES HUNDREDS OF MUNICIPALITIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. ALSO WITH US IS THE, UH, WATER ADVISORY BOARD WHO WORKED EXTREMELY HARD THROUGHOUT THE YEAR TO GET US WHERE WE ARE TODAY. AND WE ALSO WANT TO THANK, UH, ROBERTA ROMANO, WHO'S BEEN EXTREMELY HELPFUL. UH, CAROL MURRAY WITH THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, BRIAN SIMMONS, WHO'S GONNA DO A PRO, UH, A TALK ABOUT THE CAPITOL AND THE, UH, BOARD OF DEPARTMENT STAFF ARE ARE PROFESSIONALS THERE WHO HAVE BEEN EXTREMELY, EXTREMELY HELPFUL. SO FIRST YOU'RE GONNA HEAR FROM, UH, PHIL WHO WILL GO INTO A POWERPOINT ABOUT THE RATE INCREASE. AND THEN AFTER THAT WE'RE GONNA HEAR FROM BRIAN SIMMONS, THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS ON THE CAPITAL WORKS PROJECT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANKS. THANK YOU MR. SAP. MR. OKAY. CAN EVERYBODY HEAR ME? MM-HMM. . AND CAN EVERYBODY SEE THE POWERPOINT PRESENTATION THAT I HAVE UP? UH, SPEAK UP PLEASE. OH, OKAY. CAN SHE TURN IT? ALRIGHT, CAN SHE TURN IT UP? GARRETT, THE STENOGRAPHER CAN'T HEAR YOU THAT WELL. CAN YOU SPEAK UP MR. SAPONE? OKAY. MR. SAPONE, IF YOU COULD PLEASE SPEAK UP. THANK YOU. SURE, I'LL SPEAK UP. ABSOLUTELY. ALRIGHT, SO I'M GONNA GET STARTED. UH, THIS IS AN UPDATED FIVE YEAR WATER RATE PLAN. THE LAST ONE THAT WE DID FOR THE TOWN WAS BACK IN 2019. AND, UH, PERIODICALLY WE LOOK AT, UH, THESE RATE FORECASTS. AND THIS IS THE, UH, THIS IS THE LATEST ONE THAT WE HAVE. WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON IT FOR A GOOD PART OF THE YEAR. SO BEFORE I JUMP IN, I JUST WANT TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE CHALLENGES, THE FINANCIAL CHALLENGES FACING THE WATER DISTRICT. THE FIRST ONE IS RISING ANNUAL O AND M COSTS. AND THAT'S, THAT'S BEING EXPERIENCED BY UTILITIES ACROSS, UH, ACROSS THE INDUSTRY. AND THAT'S JUST, THAT'S JUST, UH, TYPICAL COST INFLATION YEAR TO YEAR. SO UPWARD, UPWARD PRESSURE ON OPERATING COSTS. UM, YOU KNOW, EACH YEAR. THE NEXT IS THE $53.8 MILLION IN CAPITAL INVESTMENTS THAT ARE PLANNED OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. THAT IS A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF, UH, CAPITAL INVESTMENTS FOR A SYSTEM OF THIS SIZE. AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT HOW THAT AFFECTS THE RATE FORECAST GOING FORWARD. THE THIRD ONE IS LIMITED HIS LIMITED HISTORICAL CUSTOMER ACCOUNT GROWTH. PHIL, PHILIP. BUT WE SEE PHILIP. YES. BECAUSE I JUST SUGGEST THAT YOU ACTUALLY, UH, DISPLAY THE SLIDE AS OPPOSED TO THE ENTIRE PROGRAM. IN OTHER WORDS, IT'S VERY SMALL IN OUR SCREEN. SO IF YOU COULD ACTUALLY OH, SURE. HOW'S THAT? THERE YOU GO. IS HE SPEAKING TOO FAST? YEAH. AND MAYBE SPEAK A LITTLE SLOWER, MR. SAPONE, IF YOU CAN. SURE, SURE, SURE. SO LIMITED HISTORICAL ACCOUNT GROWTH. SO WHEN, WHEN THESE UTILITIES, UH, WHEN WE WORK WITH UTILITIES THAT HAVE GROWING CUSTOMER BASES, THEY CAN SPREAD THEIR COSTS OVER A LARGER CUSTOMER BASE. BUT ACCOUNT GROWTH HAS BEEN PRETTY LIMITED IN THE TOWN. SO WE DON'T REALLY SEE THAT HAPPENING HERE. SO THAT'S JUST ANOTHER CHALLENGE. AND THEN THE LAST ONE IS MAINTAINING AFFORDABLE WATER SERVICE FOR ALL CUSTOMERS. SO IT'S SAYING, GIVEN THESE CHALLENGES WE WANNA MAKE, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WATER SERVICE REMAINS AFFORDABLE. REMAINS WHAT? AFFORDABLE. OKAY. I'M JUST TRYING TO HELP OUT THE STENOGRAPHERS THOUGH, 'CAUSE IF I CAN'T HEAR YOU, SHE CAN'T HEAR YOU. OKAY. OKAY. THAT'S ALL RIGHT. JUST A LITTLE BIT SLOWER, MR. SAPONE, IF YOU CAN, RIGHT. AND LOUDER. OKAY. AND LOUDER AND LOUDER. A LITTLE CLOSER TO THE MICROPHONE. ALRIGHT. YEAH. ALRIGHT. SO THESE ARE THE PROPOSED ANNUAL WATER RATE ADJUSTMENTS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022 TO 2026. NOW I SHOW 2021 HERE BECAUSE THE WATER RATES DID NOT CHANGE FROM FISCAL YEAR 2020 TO 2021. SO I JUST WANTED TO SHOW THAT HERE. SO WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE SHOWING IN THIS SLIDE IS WE'RE SAYING THAT WE NEED 8% MORE GIVEN THE COST OF THE SYSTEM THAT WE'RE PROJECTING. WE NEED 8% MORE REVENUE IN 2022, WE NEED 7% MORE REVENUE IN 2023, SIX AND A HALF PERCENT MORE REVENUE IN 2024, AND THEN 5% IN FOUR IN 4.5% MORE REVENUE IN 2025 IN 2026. AND THE WAY THAT WE WOULD GET THAT IS WE WOULD ADJUST EACH OF THE DIFFERENT WATER RATE COMPONENTS UPWARD BY 8%. SO 2022, IF WE WANTED TO GENERATE 8% MORE REVENUE, WE WOULD ADJUST EACH WATER RATE COMPONENT UPWARD BY 8%. SO I JUST WANNA BE CLEAR ON THAT. AND THOSE ADJUSTMENTS WERE ASSUMED TO BE IN EFFECT FOR THE FULL FISCAL YEAR. ONE LAST THING I WANNA SAY ABOUT THIS SLIDE IS FOR FROM 2022 TO 2024, THOSE ARE SOME HIGHER THAN NORMAL [01:10:01] INCREASES. AND WHAT I MEAN BY NORMAL IS THROUGHOUT THE INDUSTRY WE TYPICALLY SEE, UH, BASED ON, BASED ON INDUSTRY DATA, WE TYPICALLY SEE WATER RATE INCREASES OF ABOUT FOUR TO FOUR PER FOUR TO FOUR AND A HALF PERCENT PER YEAR. AND YOU CAN SEE THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT WE'RE FORECASTING OUT IN THESE YEARS HERE IS THE MORE NORMAL, MORE TYPICAL, UH, YEAR TO YEAR INCREASES. AND WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT WHY THESE ARE HIGHER THAN NORMAL. SO WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO THAT TO MAKE THESE PROJECTIONS, I USE A MICROSOFT EXCEL BASED WATER RATE MODEL AND IT TAKES ALL THE COSTS TO THE WATER SYSTEM. IT PULLS THEM TOGETHER, FORECAST THEM OUT, AND THEN IT SAYS, HERE'S HOW, HERE'S HOW MUCH EXTRA REVENUE YOU NEED TO FUND THESE COSTS. SO TO MAKE THE PROJECTIONS, WE RELIED ON FISCAL YEAR 2021 REVENUES AND EXPENSES. AND WE PROJECTED OUT INTO FUTURE YEARS BASED ON THE 2020, EXCUSE ME, THE 2021 BUDGETED AMOUNTS. THAT WAS THE LATEST INFORMATION THAT WE HAD AT THE TIME. AND AS I SAID EARLIER, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR, UH, A GOOD PORTION OF THIS YEAR. WE DID COMPARE OUR PROJECTED 2022 COSTS TO THE UPDATED BUDGET OR THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR 2022. AND THEY WERE VERY COMPARABLE. SO WE FELT GOOD ABOUT OUR FORECAST. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT DRIVES THE INCREASES ARE THE PURCHASE WATER COSTS FROM NEW YORK CITY. AND THOSE ARE A LITTLE BIT DIFFICULT TO PROJECT GOING FORWARD BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW HOW THEY'RE, HOW THOSE ARE GOING TO CHANGE. BUT WE LOOKED BACKWARD FOR ABOUT 10 YEARS AND WE SAW ON AVERAGE THEY'VE INCREASED BY ABOUT 6% PER YEAR. SO WE THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS A GOOD WAY TO PROJECT THOSE COSTS GOING FORWARD. AND PURCHASE WATER COSTS ARE A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT COST TO THE WATER SYSTEM. I THINK IT'S ABOUT A THIRD OF THE TOTAL COST OF THE SYSTEM. SO OVERALL, THE OPERATING COSTS OF THE SYSTEM ARE GOING UP BY ABOUT FOUR AND A HALF PERCENT A YEAR. I TALKED ABOUT THE CAPITAL INVESTMENTS OF 53.8 MILLION. IT CHANGES FROM YEAR TO YEAR, RANGING FROM 2.2 MILLION TO 31.6 MILLION. AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT MAKES UP THAT 31.6 MILLION. AND THEN WE HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE'RE GONNA PAY FOR THOSE CAPITAL PROJECTS. AND I SAT DOWN IN THE TOWN AND WAS DIRECTED TO USE A MIX OF CASH THAT'S, UH, WITHIN THE WATER SYSTEM THAT'S AVAILABLE TO BE USED. THERE'S SOME EXISTING BOND PROCEEDS, SO MONEY THAT'S ALREADY BEEN BORROWED THAT WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE USE BEFORE THE TOWN DECIDES TO BORROW ADDITIONAL FUNDS. AND RYAN, I'LL LET YOU SPEAK TO THE PROJECT SHOWN IN THIS SLIDE. OKAY. THANK YOU PHIL. HI EVERYONE. GOOD EVENING. UH, FOR THE RECORD, MY NAME IS BRIAN SIMMONS. I AM THE DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF PUBLIC WORKS FOR THE TOWN OF GREENBURG. UM, THE CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT, NUMBER ONE, IT SERVES APPROXIMATELY 40,000 PEOPLE THROUGH 10,500 SERVICE CONNECTIONS. THE TOTAL WATER PRODUCED IN 2020 WAS 2.6 BILLION GALLONS. AND THE DAILY AVERAGE OF WATER TREATED AND PUMPED INTO THE DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM WAS 7.17 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY. IN TOTAL, THE SYSTEM CONSISTS OF OVER 150 MILES OF WATER MAINS, APPROXIMATELY 1,700 FIRE HYDRANTS. OVER 3000 VALVES, TWO PUMPING STATIONS, AND SIX WATER STORAGE TANKS BEFORE YOU NOW ARE THE PROPOSED FUTURE CAPITAL PROJECT COSTS OF THE CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS THAT WILL GREATLY IMPROVE EACH OF THESE CRITICAL ELEMENTS OF THE SYSTEM. WATER STORAGE TANKS ENABLE A WATER SYSTEM TO SATISFY THE DEMAND THAT CANNOT BE MET BY THE PUMPING STATIONS DURING PEAK PERIODS. AND IN THE EVENT OF EMERGENCIES SUCH AS FIRE, FOUR OF THE SIX WATER TANKS HAVE BEEN REHABILITATED SINCE 2015. THIS FIVE YEAR CAPITAL PROJECT PLAN INCLUDES THE REHABILITATION OF THE TWO REMAINING WATER STORAGE TANKS, WHICH ARE THE NORWOOD WATER TANK AND THE FAIRVIEW WATER TANK. ITS 2022. CAPITAL PLAN INCLUDES THE NORWOOD WATER STORAGE TANK, WHICH IS A CYLINDRICAL TANK MADE OF RIVETED STEEL THAT WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1928. AND AS A CAPACITY OF APPROXIMATELY 500,000 GALLONS OF WATER, THE TANK IS IN NEED OF REPAIR, RENOVATION AND PAINTING. THE APPROXIMATE COST OF THIS PROJECT IS ESTIMATED TO BE $3,500,000. THE 2022 CAPITAL PLAN ALSO INCLUDES THE CONSTRUCTION OF A CONTACT TANK AND CHEMICAL FEED BUILDING AT THE KNOWLEDGE HUMPING STATION. THE CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT RECEIVES ALL OF ITS WATER FROM THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, CATSKILL AND DELAWARE WATER SYSTEMS. [01:15:01] THE NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION HAS NOTIFIED THE DISTRICT THAT IT PLANS TO CEASE CONTINUOUS CHLORINATION AFTER DECEMBER 31ST, 2022 AT THE KENSICO RESERVOIR, RESULTING IN THE NEED FOR THE TOWN TO AUGMENT ITS CURRENT DISINFECTION TREATMENT PROCESSES. IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN COMPLIANCE WITH FEDERAL AND STATE DRINKING WATER STANDARDS TO CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT NEEDS TO CONSTRUCT A CHLORINE CONTACT TANK AND ASSOCIATED CHEMICAL FEED BUILDING. THE APPROXIMATE COST OF THIS PROJECT IS 8 MILLION IN 2023. CAPITAL EXPENDITURES INCLUDE THE REPLACEMENT OF THE FAIRVIEW WATER TANK, WHICH IS ALSO A CYLINDRICAL TANK MADE OF RIVETED STEEL CONSTRUCTED IN 1925 AND HAS A CAPACITY OF APPROXIMATELY 400,000 GALLONS. THE APPROXIMATE COST OF THIS PROJECT IS ESTIMATED TO BE 8 MILLION. THE 2023 CAPITAL PLAN ALSO INCLUDES $1,575,900 IN WATER MAIN REPLACEMENT ON VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE OVER 150 MILES OF WATER MAINS VALVES AND FIRE HYDRANTS, MANY OF WHICH ARE OVER ARE, ARE MORE THAN 70 TO 90 YEARS OLD AND HAVE NOT BEEN UPGRADED. ALSO INCLUDED IN THE 2023 IS THE REPLACEMENT OF THE NORWOOD PUMP STATION, WHICH IS THE CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT'S PRIMARY SOURCE OF WATER. THE STATION WAS BUILT IN 1955 AND UPGRADED IN THE MID 1960S. IT HAS NINE PUMPS THAT RANG IN CAPACITY. THE CURRENT INFRASTRUCTURE IS REACHING THE END OF ITS USEFUL LIFE RESULTING IN REDUCED PUMP DEFICIENCY, MAKING IT VERY DIFFICULT AND COSTLY TO MAINTAIN. THE TOTAL ESTIMATE COST OF THIS PROJECT IS $22 MILLION IN 2024. CAPITAL EXPENDITURES INCLUDE $4,038,300 IN WATER, MAINE CLEANING AND LINING, AND $1,025,000 IN WATER MAIN REPLACEMENT. THIS WORK WILL TAKE PLACE ON VARIOUS SECTIONS OF THE WATER DISTRIBUTION SYSTEM TO INCREASE THE PERFORMANCE OF THE SYSTEM AND ADDRESS WATER MAIN BREAKS. THE 2025 CAPITAL EXPENDITURES INCLUDE $2,207,600 IN ADDITIONAL WATER MAIN REPLACEMENT 2026. CAPITAL EXPENDITURES INCLUDE $3,500,000 AS A PLACEHOLDER FOR FUTURE CAPITAL WORK. THIS MAY INCLUDE ADDITIONAL WATER MAIN REPLACEMENT OR OTHER WORK DEPENDING UPON THE NEEDS OF THE CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT AT THE TIME. THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS OUTLINED IN THIS FIVE YEAR CAPITAL PLAN ARE NECESSARY TO MEET THE SHORT TERM AND LONG TERM INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS OF THE CONSOLIDATED WATER DISTRICT TO ENSURE THAT THE CONTINUED AVAILABILITY OF HIGH QUALITY DRINKING WATER IS PROVIDED TO ITS CUSTOMERS. THANK YOU. I WILL NOW TURN, UH, TURN BACK OVER TO PHIL, UH, TO SPEAK ON THE PROJECTED DEBT SERVICE COSTS. OKAY, THANKS BRIAN. SO I TALKED ABOUT BEFORE THAT WHEN WE HAVE THESE PLANNED CAPITAL INVESTMENTS, WE'D HAVE TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO PAY FOR THEM. AND THE TOWN HAD INDICATED THAT IT INTENDS TO BORROW MONEY TO PAY FOR A PORTION OF THE CAPITAL PROJECTS SHOWN BY THE PREVIOUS SLIDE. SO WHAT I WANTED TO SHOW ON THIS SLIDE WAS THE PROJECTED PRINCIPLE AND INTEREST REPAYMENTS ON THE MONEY THAT, THAT THE TOWN INTENDS TO BORROW TO PAY FOR ITS CAPITAL PROGRAM OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. AND THE ANNUAL AMOUNTS ARE SHOWN IN THESE BLUE BARS. SO FOR 2021, THE TOWN WAS BUDGETED TO PAY DEBT SERVICE. AND WHEN I SAY DEBT SERVICE, I MEAN A PRINCIPLE AND INTEREST REPAYMENT ON BORROWED MONIES OF $2.3 MILLION. WE'RE, WE EXPECT WE PROJECT THAT TO INCREASE TO $4.2 MILLION BY 2026. AND AGAIN, THAT'S A RESULT OF THE PROJECT COSTS SHOWN ON THIS SLIDE HERE AND THE TOWN'S INTENTIONS TO BORROW MONEY TO PAY FOR A PORTION OF THESE COSTS. SO THE ANNUAL DEBT SERVICE, OR THE REPAYMENTS OF PRINCIPAL AND INTERESTS ON BORROWED MONIES ARE PROJECTED TO INCREASE BY OVER 80% FROM 2021 TO 2026. THAT IS A LARGE PART OF WHY WE'RE SEEING HIGHER THAN NORMAL RATE, HIGHER THAN NORMAL RATE INCREASES IN THOSE FIRST FEW YEARS OF THE CHART, WHICH I BELIEVE AROUND 8% AND 7.5%. ONCE WE GENERATE ENOUGH REVENUES TO COVER THOSE COSTS, THEN WE GET THE MORE MODERATE RATE, RATE INCREASES IN THE LATER YEARS. THIS SLIDE IS SHOWING QUARTERLY RESIDENTIAL BILLS BY USAGE LEVEL. SO WHAT I WANTED TO DO WAS TAKE THOSE PERCENTAGES THAT I SHOWED YOU ON THE FIRST CHART THAT WERE SAYING, HERE'S HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL RATE REVENUES WE'RE GOING TO NEED AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ADJUST THE WATER RATES. AND I WANTED TO PUT THEM IN TERMS OF QUARTERLY BILL AMOUNTS. SO WHAT I DID WAS [01:20:01] I WENT THROUGH, IN, IN DISTRICT CUSTOMERS WHO ARE BILLED QUARTERLY, WHICH ARE PRIMARILY OR ENTIRELY RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS, I WAS UNABLE TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN HOUSING TYPES. SO THE CUSTOMERS INCLUDED, THERE WERE THOSE THAT LIVE IN SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, UM, CONDOS, APARTMENTS, ANY, ANY TYPE OF RESIDENTIAL DWELLING. SO I PICKED A EXAMPLE USER, WHICH WAS IN THE 25TH PERCENTILE OF QUARTERLY USAGE AT THE MEDIAN, THE 50TH PERCENTILE OF USAGE. AND, UH, A USER THAT USED IT, THAT'S CONSUMING IN THE 75TH PERCENTILE UP AROUND 26,000 GALLONS A QUARTER. SO YOU CAN SEE FOR THE USER IN THE 25TH PERCENTILE, THEIR BILLS ARE INCREASING FROM $62 A QUARTER TO $67 A QUARTER, AND THEN AROUND THREE TO $4 A QUARTER GOING FORWARD IN FUTURE YEARS, BASED ON THE PROJECTED INCREASES I USE AROUND THE 50TH PERCENTILE, THEIR BILL WILL GO FROM $108 A MONTH TO $117 A MONTH BY ABOUT A $9 INCREASE. AND THEN GOING FORWARD, THE INCREASES RANGE FROM, IT LOOKS LIKE ABOUT SIX TO SIX TO $8 A QUARTER. A USER OF THE 75TH PERCENTILE, WHICH I ASSUME WOULD BE, UM, HAVING QUITE A BIT OF OUTDOOR WATER USAGE, WOULD INCREASE FROM $203 A QUARTER TO $219 A QUARTER AND THEN GO UP BY ABOUT LOOKS LIKE 12 TO $16 A QUARTER GOING FORWARD. SO AGAIN, JUST PUTTING THOSE INCREASES IN TERMS OF BILL AMOUNTS, UH, ON THIS SLIDE TO HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT THE BILLS ARE NOW AND HOW THOSE INCREASES WILL AFFECT BILL AMOUNTS GOING FORWARD. THIS SLIDE IS SHOWING A COMPARISON OF WATER RATES, INCLUDING THE TOWN OF GREENBERG'S WATER RATES TO OTHER WATER PROVIDERS IN THE LOCAL REGION. AND THIS IS A REALLY GOOD COMPARISON FOR A COUPLE REASONS. FIRST OF ALL, EVERYBODY IS, UH, THE COMMUNITIES INCLUDED ARE, ARE VERY LO, ARE ARE LOCAL. SO IT'S A, IT'S A VERY GOOD COMPARISON IN THAT REGARD. AND THE OTHER REASON IT'S A GOOD COMPARISON IS BECAUSE I BELIEVE ALMOST ALL OF THESE PURCHASE WATER FROM THE NEW YORK CITY WATER SYSTEM, SO EVERYBODY'S IN THE SAME BOAT AS FAR AS, UH, AS FAR AS THAT GOES. SO WHAT WE SEE HERE IS GREENBERG EXISTING, THAT IS A, LET ME BACK UP. SO, SO THE WAY I CALCULATED THESE BILL, THESE MONTHLY BILL AMOUNTS WAS THAT I ASSUMED A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF MONTHLY USAGE AND THEN I MULTIPLY THAT USAGE BY THE WATER RATES IN EFFECT AT ALL THESE COMMUNITIES. SO THAT'S THE WAY TO NORMALIZE THESE BILLS AND MAKE THEM COMPARABLE. SO THE TOWN OF GREENBERG'S EXISTING WATER RATES RESULT IN A, IN A MONTHLY BILL FOR THE ASSUMED USAGE AMOUNT OF ABOUT $36 AND 9 CENTS. GIVEN THE PROPOSED INCREASE, WHICH IS PROPOSED FOR 2022 IS THE ESTIMATED MONTHLY BILL BASED ON THE PROPOSED WATER RATES FOR 2022, WHICH SHOULD BE AN INCREASE OF 8%. THE MONTHLY BILL HERE FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS COMPARISON WOULD GO UP TO $38 AND 98 CENTS. THE MAIN TAKEAWAY IS THAT THE TOWN OF GREENBERG'S WATER RATES ARE VERY COMPETITIVE OR ARE LOWER THAN MOST OTHER COMMUNITIES IN THE LOCAL REGION. AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT I'VE SEEN FROM WORKING AS A RADIO ANALYST FOR THE TOWN OF GREENBERG FOR ABOUT THE LAST SEVEN OR EIGHT YEARS, WAS THE TOWN OF GREENBERG'S. WATER RATES ARE PRETTY LOW COMPARED TO OTHER WATER UTILITIES IN THE LOCAL REGION, AND THAT CONTINUES THIS YEAR, EVEN WITH THE PROJECTED INCREASE FOR 2022. IF YOU REMEMBER FROM MY FIRST SLIDE, I TALKED ABOUT MAINTAINING AFFORDABLE WATER RATES. THAT WAS ONE OF OUR CHALLENGES. SO I DO WANNA COME BACK AROUND ON THAT. AND, YOU KNOW, A FULL SCALE AFFORDABILITY ANALYSIS IS QUITE A LARGE UNDERTAKING, BUT WHAT I WANTED TO DO HERE WAS JUST DO A QUICK CALCULATION TO GIVE AN INDICATION OF AFFORDABILITY. AND ONE WAY YOU CAN DO THAT IS YOU CAN CALCULATE THE TYPICAL ANNUAL COST FOR WATER SERVICE, WHICH INCLUDES THE PROJECTED INCREASES THAT I SHOWED ON THE FIRST SLIDE, AND COMPARE THAT TO THE MEDIAN HOUSEHOLD INCOME WITHIN THE TOWN, WHICH I HAD TO PROJECT IN FUTURE YEARS. AND US E P A HAS FROM SOME, FROM IN, IN, IN SOME OTHER WAY, HAS GENERALLY SAID THAT IF THE ANNUAL BILL AS A PERCENTAGE OF M H I IS LESS THAN 2.5%, THAT THAT IS GENERALLY GENERALLY REGARDED AS AFFORDABLE WATER SERVICE. AND YOU CAN SEE THAT HERE, THE TOWN OF GREENBERG'S WATER RATES RESULT IN A, UH, IN A PERCENTAGE THAT'S 0.3%. SO THAT'S FAR BELOW THE 2.5% THRESHOLD, AND I'M NOT SURPRISED TO SEE THAT GIVEN HOW COMPETITIVE THE TOWN'S WATER RATES ARE WITH OTHER, WITH OTHER COMMUNITIES IN THE LOCAL REGION. JUST THE LAST COUPLE SLIDES HERE, REALLY JUST FOR INFORMATIONAL PUR PURPOSES, WHAT I'M SHOWING IS [01:25:01] WHAT DOES $1 OF RATE REVENUE, SO WHEN, WHEN SOMEBODY PAYS THEIR BILL, WHAT DOES $1 OF THAT BILL GO TO PAY? YOU CAN SEE IT'S ABOUT A THIRD IS PURCHASE WATER FROM NEW YORK CITY SALARIES AND WAGES OF THE EMPLOYEES DEBT SERVICE. SO IT'S THE REPAYMENT OF PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST ON BORROWED MONIES. IT'S INTERFUND PAYMENTS FOR GOVERNMENTAL SUPPORT SERVICES THAT ARE PROVIDED TO THE WATER DISTRICT, AND THEN JUST GENERAL OTHER GENERAL OPERATING COSTS. AND WHAT I'VE DONE IS I'VE SHOWN HOW THAT'S GONNA CHANGE IN THE FUTURE. SO I'LL FLIP BACK A COUPLE TIMES SO YOU CAN SEE HOW THIS IS GONNA CHANGE. AND WHAT YOU'LL NOTICE IS THAT THE DEBT SERVICE, THE REPAYMENTS OF THE PRINCIPAL AND INTEREST ON BORROWED MONIES, WHICH I TALKED ABOUT A FEW SLIDES EARLIER, WHICH WAS BACK HERE, I SEE THAT GOING UP SIGNIFICANTLY. WE'RE PROJECTING THAT GOING UP SIGNIFICANTLY. YOU CAN SEE THAT BECOME A LARGER SHARE OF WHAT $1 OF RATE REVENUE WILL PAY. AND LIKE I SAID, THAT IS THE KEY DRIVER TO THESE, TO THESE PROJECTED RATE INCREASES THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TONIGHT. UH, THAT IS IT. THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME TONIGHT. THANK YOU. QUESTIONS FROM THE PUBLIC. WELL, IS THERE GONNA BE ? IT'S, IT'S A PUBLIC HEARING. YES. SO ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO SPEAK CAN SPEAK FOR FIVE MINUTES. IT REALLY, THE SUMMARY AS I UNDERSTAND IT, IS THAT WE HAVE A PUMP STATION THAT IS VERY OLD. IT'S, IT'S OVER 66 YEARS OLD. IT'S OVER 66 YEARS OLD. UM, IF WE DON'T, UM, ADDRESS IT, WE, OUR WATER COULD BE A RISK. AND IN THE PAST NUMBER OF YEARS WE'VE MADE MAJOR, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE ENHANCEMENTS, UH, CONNECTING THE RUM BOOK TO NORWOOD, UM, YOU KNOW, WATER TANKS, UH, PAINTING SOME OF THE WATER TANKS. AND IF WE HADN'T DONE THAT, AND IF WE DON'T CONTINUE TO DO THIS, UH, AT SOME POINT THE WATER COULD BE AT RISK. YOU KNOW, WE'VE SEEN WITH CLIENT ED, THEY HADN'T ADDRESSED THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE AND EVERY YEAR THERE'S POWER OUTAGES. COULD YOU IMAGINE HAVING NO WATER? THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IS UNACCEPTABLE. SO I REALLY FEEL, UH, BASED ON THE CONVERSATIONS, YOU KNOW, I HAD WITH RICH AND LISTENING TO THIS PRESENTATION, I FEEL WE REALLY DON'T HAVE A CHOICE. THAT'S MY OWN PERSONAL FEELING. I'M AGREEING WITH YOU. OKAY. ANYBODY WANNA SPEAK FROM THE PUBLIC? WAIT, I THINK I KNOW ALSO THERE ARE MEMBERS OF THE, UM, WATER ADVISORY BOARD. I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF THEM WANTED TO SPEAK TOO, BUT I THINK THEY'RE LOOPED IN. I DON'T KNOW IF FRANCIS OKAY. ANYBODY'S GOT THEIR HANDS UP. UH, DO THE WATER ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS WISH TO SPEAK? I, THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE GONNA, OKAY. I'M NOT AWARE OF ANY MEMBERS ON, RIGHT. OKAY. OKAY. I MAKE, SO MAYBE THEY COULDN'T MAKE IT. SO. ALRIGHT. WE DO HAVE RESIDENTS WHO ARE RAISING THEIR HAND. OKAY. DO YOU WANT TO COME UP AND, AND MEET WITH JUDITH AND GIVE EVERYBODY NAMES? YES. CHAR. YEAH. ANYBODY ELSE WANNA SPEAK OTHER THAN MS. CHARCO? WE, AND HOW SOUNDS, DOES SHE KNOW IT'S ABOUT THE WATER? JUST YES, YES, YES. THIS RELATES TO THE WATER PUBLIC HEARING, CORRECT? YES. YES, IT IS. UM, I'M REALLY GLAD THAT I STAYED AT THIS MEETING BECAUSE I WAS JUST TALKING TO LYNN THE OTHER DAY. SOMETHING HAS CHANGED IN OUR WATER WHERE I LIVE AND I LIVE AT 33 OAK STREET. AND, UM, THE TASTE IS JUST OFF. WE'VE BEEN DRINKING BOTTLED WATER, BUYING JUGS OF WATER FOR SEVERAL MONTHS NOW. AND MY DAUGHTER NOTICED IT FIRST. IT TASTES LIKE CHEMICALS, IT TASTES LIKE PAINT. MOMMY. AND I GUESS I'M JUST SO USED TO , YOU KNOW, NOT PAYING ATTENTION TO GONNA, LIKE, I'LL, I'LL HAVE COFFEE, BUT SHE'S DRINKING THE WATER, YOU KNOW? SO ANYWAY, UM, SO WE'VE BEEN DRINKING. WE TRIED TO BOIL WATER, COOL IT OFF AND PUT IT THROUGH OUR BRITA AND IT TASTED AWFUL. SO NOW I'M SAVING MONEY TO GO BUY A CHARCOAL FILTER SYSTEM, BURKEY, WHATEVER THE HECK IT'S CALLED, AND IT'S GONNA COST ME OVER $200. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, SOMEHOW IT'S JUST, UM, I KNOW IT'S HARD, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING IN THE TE THE INFRASTRUCTURE IS AWFUL, YOU KNOW, EVERYWHERE. IT'S NOT JUST THE GREENBERG, IT'S EVERYWHERE AND IT'S FALLING APART AND IT'S OLD. AND I THINK YOU JUST SAID THAT THE FAIRVIEW TANK IS 1925. WAS THAT RIGHT? I MEAN, COME ON. [01:30:01] REALLY? IT, IT WAS BUILT BEFORE MY GRANDPARENTS IMMIGRATED HERE THREE YEARS LATER. UM, IT FAIRVIEW, ALL THE COMMUNITIES CANNOT WAIT. I CANNOT WAIT TILL, TILL 2023. TO HAVE GOOD WATER IS UNACCEPTABLE. YOU HAD TO SOMEHOW, WE HAD TO DO THESE PROJECTS AT ONE TIME, AND I, I JUST WANTED TO, TO COMMENT BECAUSE I, I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY, MORE MONEY I COULD SPEND, YOU KNOW, BUYING WATER RIGHT NOW. SO ANYWAY, I ONLY, I'M SHOWERING IN IT. THAT'S IT. SO THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHAT I JUST WANT TO INFORM YOU WHAT'S GOING ON. IT'S NOT AN ACCUSATION TO THE BOARD, IT'S NOT ANYTHING, IT'S NOBODY'S FAULT. IT'S JUST A LACK OF REVENUE THAT WE'VE HAD. AND HOPEFULLY WITH THE INFRASTRUCTURE BILL, IF THE MONEY COMES THROUGH, THEN MAYBE WE COULD DO THE PROJECTS TOGETHER IN 2022. SO, UH, I'M HOPING FOR THAT. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MS. CHAIR. YOU, DID YOU, LOUISE, DID YOU TALK TO COMMISSIONER FOND ABOUT THE TASTE OF YOUR WATER EVER? NO. I, MAYBE YOU SHOULD NEVER MET HIM BEFORE. MAY, MAY, MAY. MAYBE YOU SHOULD JUST HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH HIM AND MAYBE HE CAN LOOK INTO IT AND, AND GIVE YOU SOME MORE INFORMATION ABOUT IT. THANK YOU. SURE. THANK YOU KEN. DO ANYONE ELSE WANNA SPEAK ABOUT THE RATE INCREASE AS OPPOSED TO NECESSARILY THE QUALITY OF THE WATER, WHICH IS A, IS A KIND OF A DIFFERENT ISSUE. I'M ONLY REACTING TO WHAT I HEARD AND A LITTLE CONFUSED IN FACT BY WHAT I HEARD. UM, PHIL'S COMPARISON OF LOCAL COMMUNITIES, UH, GETTING THEIR WATER. I'M WONDERING IF IT INCLUDES THE FOR-PROFIT COMPANIES WITHIN THE COMPARISON. I UNDERSTAND FOR-PROFIT IS GOING TO HAVE A HIGHER RATE STRUCTURE. WE ARE NOT OPERATING A WATER COMPANY FOR PROFIT, ARE WE? SO IS THE COMPARISON POSSIBLE BE SHOWN JUST FOR NON-PROFIT LOCAL COMMUNITIES AGAINST GREENBERG? I THINK THAT WOULD BE THE FAIR WAY TO PRESENT IT. I HEARD THAT THIS SERVICES 40,000 PEOPLE. WELL THAT'S NOT THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF GREENBERG, IS IT? SO THERE ARE OTHER WATER SOURCES WHICH OPERATE FOR PROFIT. I BELIEVE SUEZ WATER IS THE NAME, UH, THAT SERVICES THE OTHER PART OF GREENBURG. UM, SO MR. FINER THAT THIS IS NOT THE WATER COMPANY THAT SERVES EVERYONE IN GREENBURG, IS IT? NO. UM, NOW LET'S START FROM THE POINT THAT EVERYONE SEEMS TO BUY THEIR WATER FROM NEW YORK CITY. FINE. WHAT DOES NEW YORK CITY CHARGE US AND HOW MUCH ARE WE CHARGING THE CUSTOMERS? HOW IS THAT COMPARISON WORK AMONG OTHER LOCAL COMMUNITIES? WE SAW A LOT OF CHARTS, WE HEARD A LOT OF INFORMATION, BUT THE REALITY IS STACKED TO PRE PRESENT SOMETHING THAT MAY NOT BE AN ACTUAL TRUTHFUL CONCLUSION BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GETTING THE RIGHT DATA IN A COMPARATIVE FORM. FINALLY, THE FAIRVIEW WATER TANK, WE HAVE THAT DISCUSSION HERE A FEW YEARS BACK, DIDN'T WE? AND WE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT. IN FACT, THE ENTIRE PROBLEM WITH THE WATER STRUCTURE IS THAT WE HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING FOR YEARS. AND ONLY RECENTLY WE'VE APPOINTED A NEW WATER BOARD OUR STEPS BEING TAKEN TO CORRECT DECADES OF NON-PERFORMANCE ON OUR PART IN WORRYING ABOUT HOW OUR SYSTEM IS CORRODING. SO REALLY UNDER YOUR WATCH, MR. FINER, YOU'VE LET THE SYSTEM FALL INTO DISREPAIR AND ARE ONLY NOW MAKING AN EFFORT TO DO SO. IT'S GOOD BECAUSE INTEREST RATES ARE DOWN. CERTAINLY IT'S A GOOD TIME TO DO IT AND MAYBE THERE'S FEDERAL FUNDS AVAILABLE TOO. BUT THE BASIS OF THIS PRESENTATION WAS NOT A FAIR ONE TO THE, TO THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY BUY THEIR WATER THROUGH GREENBERG. AND THE COMPARISON SHOULD BE AGAINST THOSE WHO COMPANIES THAT AREN'T SEEKING TO MAKE A PROFIT ON IT, BUT ONLY THOSE THAT OPERATE LIKE GREENBERG BASICALLY AT BREAK EVEN. ANYONE ELSE? NO. THEN I [01:35:01] WOULD LIKE TO, WELL, ANYBODY REMOTELY WHO WANTS TO SPEAK THEN I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE ADJOURN THE HEARING. WHAT WE'RE JUST TRYING TO FIND OUT, WE'LL CLOSE THE HEARING. CLOSE THE HEARING AND LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN UNTIL FRIDAY AT FIVE O'CLOCK. OKAY. YEAH, THAT'S GREAT. YEAH. I'M SORRY RICH, CAN I JUST MAKE ONE OTHER, UH, COMMENT? IS THERE A SECOND? DID YOU SAY THAT UM, WE HAVE A WATER ADVISORY BOARD AND THEY RECOMMEND THESE RATE INCREASES? THEY DID. OKAY. AND THEY WORKED EXTREMELY HARD. THEY PUT IN A LOT OF HOURS AND UH, I MEAN THEY REALLY DUG INTO THE WEEDS AND, UH, I, I GIVE 'EM A LOT OF CREDIT AS A VOLUNTEER BOARD HOW MUCH TIME THEY PUT IN. THEY REALLY DID. THOSE ARE PRIVATE TOWN CITIZENS. YES, THEY'RE RESIDENT. BUT RICH, ISN'T IT ALSO TRUE THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING PAINTING AND CARING FOR OTHER OTHER WATER TANKS WITHIN THE DISTRICT? THAT'S ABSOLUTELY TRUE. FOUR YEAR TANKS ARE COMPLETELY REDONE AND THE LAST TWO ARE SCHEDULED OVER THE NEXT FEW YEARS. SO JUST TO BE CLEAR, THE TOWN HAS BEEN VERY ACTIVE REGULARLY OF MAINTAINING OUR SYSTEM. THESE ARE ACTIONS LIKE OUR PUMP STATION. IT'S AT THE END OF ITS USEFUL. I YOU HEARD FROM BRIAN, SO IT'S TIME TO REDO THIS. IT'S NOT THAT IT'S NOT WORKING, IT'S JUST, IT'S TIME TO UPGRADE. AND I WILL SAY I HEARD ONE OTHER THING. WE ARE, CAROL MURRAY IN THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT IS AGGRESSIVELY SEEKING, UH, THESE GRANTS AND FUNDING. I THINK SHE'S GOT THREE APPLICATIONS IN NOW. UM, WE'RE VERY HOPEFUL THAT WE'LL WE KNOW WE'LL GET SOME OF THIS INFRASTRUCTURE MONEY. UM, AND YOU KNOW, NOW WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO WORK ON THE OLDER PUMP STATION 'CAUSE THE TWO ARE CONNECTED AND THAT PROJECT'S WE'RE IN THE, THE, UH, THE PUNCH LIST ITEM NOW. SO WE'RE ALMOST COMPLETELY A HUNDRED PERCENT COMPLETELY DONE THAT NOW ENABLES US TO DO THE WORK WE NEED TO ON THE OLDER PUMP STATION. THAT WAS CRITICAL. AND THIS BOARD PASSED THAT SOME YEARS AGO. AND I GOTTA GIVE A LOT OF CREDIT TO VICTOR ROZI, MY PREDECESSOR. 'CAUSE HE REALLY FOCUSED ON THE WATER AND I KNOW THE WATER ADVISORY BOARD CAME IN UNDER HIS WATCH, YOU KNOW, AND THE TRANSMISSION MAIN WAS HIS PUSH. UM, SO HE REALLY DID A LOT OF WORK. HE WAS A REAL WATER GUY. IN FACT, I THINK THAT'S WHAT HE'S DOING NOW IN FLORIDA. BUT THIS WAS, YOU KNOW, THIS WAS HIS PET PROJECT. IT WAS THE MOTOR DEPARTMENT. AND I JUST WANT TO ASK YOU A QUESTION ABOUT THAT. I MEAN, IT'S FAIRLY MONUMENTAL THAT WE'RE IN THE PUNCH LIST PHASE OF THAT. WHAT DID YOU CALL IT WITH THE, THE WATER WATER TRANSMISSION MAIN? THE WATER, THE WATER TRANSMISSION, MAINE. UM, THE, UH, YOU KNOW, WE SPENT A NUMBER OF YEARS WORKING ON THAT. I MEAN, THAT, THAT'S REALLY WORTH CELEBRATING. YEAH. UM, THE DID IT, I DON'T RECALL ANY MAJOR ISSUES COMING BEFORE THE BOARD WITH RESPECT TO THAT. NO, THAT'S REALLY REMARKABLE THAT SUCH AN SUCH A, A HUGE PROJECT WAS COMPLETED. UM, WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A HICCUP. AM I? IT REALLY IS. THAT'S ABSOLUTELY FACT. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE, IT'S, IT WAS ALMOST A $9 MILLION PROJECT. SURE. UH, IT IT INCLUDED BORING UNDER THE PARKWAYS. YEAH. YES. I MEAN, HOW MANY MILES AGAIN? THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY'RE APPARENTLY FAR APART. BRIAN, YOU KNOW, THE DISTANCE ESTIMATE ESTIMATE, IT'S A QUICK TEST, BRIAN. YEAH, IT WAS A, IT WAS A FEW MILES. YES. SO YOU, YOU DID ALL THIS WORK AND OUTSIDE AREA, EXCUSE ME. BUT IT'S A FEW MILES THROUGH A RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD UNDERNEATH THE SPRINGBROOK HIGHWAY. YEAH, THE OTHER SIDE. ALRIGHT. THIS IS, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE OTHER PROJECTS OUT THERE AND THE COMPLAINTS AND THE CONCERNS PEOPLE HAVE, THIS WENT RELATIVELY UNNOTICED. UM, AND I GOTTA GIVE A LOT OF CREDIT TO CAROL MURRAY. MM-HMM. AND ARC. AND AGAIN, OUR WATER TEAM, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU GOT A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT REALLY CARE ABOUT THIS SYSTEM AND REALLY PUT A LOT OF TIME IN AND, UH, IT'S A CREDIT TO THEM AND IT'S REALLY, IT'S A BENEFIT TO THE RESIDENTS OF THIS TOWN. MM-HMM. , THANK YOU. MADE A MOTION. THANK YOU. YOU THANK YOU. I, YOUR TEAM THAT'S, IT'S DONE SUCH A GREAT JOB. NO, REALLY. WE GOT, WE GOT A LOT OF GREAT PROFESSIONALS WORKING FOR THE TOWN. GOOD. WE NOW HAVE REDUNDANCY. THAT'S GREAT. YEAH. YEAH. WE, WE, WE ALSO HAVE TO RECOGNIZE THE NEIGHBORS THAT DID LIVE ON THE STREETS THAT WE DUG UP TO PUT THE PIPES THROUGH, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY IT WAS A, A SIGNIFICANT DISRUPTION TO THEM. YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL GOING TO HAVE THE BENEFIT OF IT, BUT THEY ACTUALLY LIVE THROUGH NOT GETTING INTO THEIR DRIVEWAYS, HAVING TO PARK ELSEWHERE, MAYBE BEING IN THEIR DRIVEWAY AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY CAN'T GET OUT BECAUSE THERE'S A TRENCH. UH, SO WE GIVE, UH, A LOT, A LOT OF, UH, CREDIT TO THEM AND VERY FEW ACTUAL COMPLAINTS. MM-HMM. SOME LITTLE TWEAKING AS TO HOW THINGS HAD TO BE DONE. WHEN I FIRST CAME ON THE BOARD IN 2006, I GOT THE TYPICAL TOUR OF ALL THE FACILITIES. I WAS ACTUALLY SH I WAS VERY SHOCKED AT THE PUMP [01:40:01] STATION, BUT WE'RE NOW GOING TO START CALLING THE OLD PUMP STATION, BUT THE, UH, PUMP STATION AND HOW, HOW BADLY IT WAS LEAKING AND YOU COULDN'T SHUT OFF THE LEAK BECAUSE WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY REDUNDANCY. THIS PROJECT THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UH, HAD TO HAPPEN. IT HAD TO HAPPEN. AND THERE'S PLANNING THAT WAS GOING ON FOR OVER A DECADE AND LOOKING AT DIFFERENT ROUTES. HOW DO WE AVOID GOING DOWN THOSE RESIDENTIAL STREETS? SHOULD WE GO UP, UM, TOWARDS DODGE FERRY ROAD, UH, INSTEAD OR SHOULD WE ACTUALLY CUT THROUGH THE RESIDENTIAL STREETS? UM, ALL THESE DECISIONS WERE WORKED OUT. ENGINEERS WERE LOOKING AT ALL THESE DIFFERENT THINGS AND HOW DO WE ACTUALLY MAKE THIS THING HAPPEN? AND IT'S, IT, IT'S ALMOST LIKE WE SHOULD HAVE A RIBBON CUTTING FOR THIS 'CAUSE IT'S SO ENORMOUS. ABSOLUTELY. IT'S SO ENORMOUS. 'CAUSE MOST, IT'S HUGE. MOST PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THAT THERE WAS A, A PIPE SEPARATING YOU FROM NOT HAVING WATER FOR A VERY LONG TIME BECAUSE WE HAD NO REDUNDANCY. THERE WAS ONE SOURCE OF WATER TO YOUR HOME, TO YOUR BUSINESS AND THAT WAS IT. AND THAT PUMP STATION WAS LEAKING. BUT WE COULDN'T FIX IT. WE COULDN'T EVEN TRY TO CLOSE THE VALVE. 'CAUSE WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED WOULD HAPPEN IF WE DID, WE DID. THAT IS NO LONGER THE CASE BECAUSE OF THIS PROJECT. WE CAN NOW DO THE SECOND PHASE. THE MONEY FOR THAT ORIGINAL PHASE IS NOT WHAT'S BEFORE US HERE. CORRECT? CORRECT. CORRECT. THIS IS NOW WHAT WE CAN DO BECAUSE WE DID THE TRANSMISSION RATE MAIN, NOW WE CAN ACTUALLY REPLACE THE OLD PUMP STATION SO THAT THE CHANCE OF THAT FAILING BECOMES VERY, VERY SMALL BECAUSE IT'S GOING TO BE STATE OF THE ART, BRAND NEW. AND A LOT OF WORK HAS GONE INTO THAT. BUT SO YES, IT'S GOING TO BE, IT'S GOING TO BE, AND I LIVE IN THIS WATER DISTRICT, IT'S GOING TO BE TOUGH. THE RATES ARE GOING TO GO UP. UH, BUT THEY HAVE TO IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE RELIABLE WATER, YOU CAN, YOU COULD LIVE FOR A WHILE WITHOUT ELECTRICITY, EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T LIKE IT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN EVEN PROBABLY LIVE, YOU KNOW, WITHOUT HAVING OIL DELIVERED FOR A COUPLE OF DAYS. YOU CAN'T GO ON WITHOUT WATER. AND THE FIRE SUPPRESSION SYSTEMS, THEY'RE ALL BASED ON WATER. IT'S A DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN. AND UM, WE ARE WELL ON OUR WAY TO AVOIDING THAT DISASTER. SO THIS IS NOT JUST ABOUT MONEY, IT'S ABOUT LIFE SAFETY AND WHAT WE JUST DID WITH THIS, UH, TRANSMISSION RAIN. OKAY. AND PAUL, YOU MADE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING SECOND ROUND. NO, NO. I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE HAVING SECOND. NO, NO, NO. SO PAUL, YOU MADE A MOTION. I THINK THERE'S A MOTION ON THE FLOOR AND I DON'T KNOW IF THERE WAS A SECOND. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. OKAY. OKAY. NOW WE'RE [ To consider the 2022 Preliminary Budget. (The 2022 Tentative Budget, which is considered the 2022 Preliminary Budget at this point, may be found on the GreenburghNY.com homepage at the bottom under Quick Links.)] GONNA HAVE THE SECOND PUBLIC HEARING. THANK YOU MR. SECOND. PUBLIC HEARING ON THE PRELIMINARY BUDGET. UM, UM, ROBERTA, YOU WANNA OPEN THE HEARING? I WANNA OPEN THE HEARING SECOND. AYE AYE. AYE. AYE. GOOD EVENING. HONORABLE THREAT. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YEAH. YES. AND BEFORE YOU START, UH, MR. SAMS, IF YOU HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS, YOU CAN SUBMIT THEM IN WRITING AND THE TOWN BOARD WILL CONSIDER THEM. I JUST WANTED TO MENTION THAT. OKAY. MS. MEMBER BURT RESPOND TO THAT. NO, NO, NO. YOU CAN'T RESPOND. OKAY. GOOD EVENING. HONORABLE BOTH TOWN FOREIGN MEMBERS AND THE TOWN RESIDENTS OF GREENBURG. I PRESENT TO YOU TONIGHT THE CUMULATIVE ADJUSTMENTS TO THE 2022 PRELIMINARY BUDGET. FIRST CHANGE IS AN INCREASE IN THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT FOR ENGINEERING EXPENSES, WHICH ARE COVERED BY FEES THAT WERE COLLECTED IN 2021. THE SECOND ONE IS AN INCREASE TO A CONSULTING LINE IN THIS SPECIAL, UM, ITEMS DEPARTMENT. AND THAT IS FOR WORK POLICIES, CONSULTANT, AND SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS CONSULTANTS. THE LAST ONE IN THE A BUDGET IS AN INCREASE TO THE SERVICE CONTRACTS LINE IN, UM, THE ADVANCED LIFE SUPPORT DEPARTMENT. AND THAT'S BECAUSE THE WESTCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER PHARMACY CONTRACT HAS GONE UP A LITTLE BIT IN TOTAL. THOSE CHANGES. AFTER THAT, THE REVISED RATE IS A DECREASE OF 1.05% IN THE A BUDGET IN THE B BUDGET. THE CHANGES ARE AN INCREASE TO SPECIAL LINE TO, UM, SPECIAL ITEMS. THAT DEPARTMENT, IT'S FOR SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS CONSULTANT. THE NEXT ONE IS AN INCREASE TO THE SALARIES IN THE PARKS DEPARTMENT. THERE, THERE WAS AN INPUT ERROR THAT WAS A THOUSAND DOLLARS. [01:45:02] THE NEXT INCREASE IS FOR SALARIES IN THE, UH, PLANNING DEPARTMENT. AND THAT WAS TO CONVERT THE ASSISTANT PLANNER TO PLANNER. THOSE CHANGES IN TOTAL HAVE A REVISED RATE OF A DECREASE OF 4.49%. AND THEN THE ONLY OTHER CHANGES ARE WITHIN THE WATER FUND. WE ARE INCREASING THE TRANSFER FROM THE F FUND. I'M SORRY, WE'RE DECREASING FROM THE F FUND TO THE RUM BOOK PUMP STATION BECAUSE NOW IRVINGTON WILL BE REIMBURSING US FOR PART OF THE DEBT PROCEEDS THAT WE ARE PAYING OFF. AND THAT'S ALL OF THE CHANGES TO THE PRELIMINARY BUDGET. SO, UH, SO BASICALLY IF SOMEBODY'S HOME WAS ASSESSED AT $500,000 AND, UH, THEY LIVE IN ONE OF THE VILLAGES, UM, THEY PAY $226 AND 31 UH, CENTS IN 2021, AND IN 2022 IT WOULD GO DOWN TO $223 AND 94 CENTS. SO THERE'S A, UH, A LITTLE OVER 2.38%, $2 38 CENTS. RIGHT. DECREASE, UH, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT RIGHT? TWO, UH, RIGHT. IT'S A DIFFERENCE OF $2 AND 38 CENTS. AND IF YOU LIVE IN UNINCORPORATED GREENBERG AND YOU WERE, YOUR HOUSE IS ASSESSED AT 500,000 AND IN 2021 YOU PAID 3068 $92. AND IN 2022, UM, IT WOULD BE $2,923 AND 42 CENTS. SO THERE'S $137 AND 50 CENTS. UH, UH, DIFFERENCE. DIFFERENCE. YES. OKAY. SO THAT'S GREAT. YOU DID A VERY GOOD JOB. I THANK YOU OF, UH, YOU KNOW, AND THE BOARD, YOU KNOW, CAME UP WITH A, A BUDGET THAT MAINTAINS A, A SLIGHT TEXT DECREASE. MM-HMM. . THANK YOU. THANK YOU. SO ANYBODY LIKE TO, UH, SPEAK ON THIS HEARING? MR. SAMS HOUSE? SAMS, ARE YOU CHANGING THE RULES? YOU'LL HAVE ALWAYS ALLOWED TWO FIVE MINUTE COMMENTS ON PUBLIC HEARINGS, ESPECIALLY THE BUDGET. THERE AREN'T A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO ARE GONNA SPEAK. YOU'VE TAKEN A LOT OF BREAKS YOURSELF. I THINK YOU CAN AFFORD TO SPEND A LITTLE TIME ON THE BUDGET TONIGHT. MRS. SIMMONS. I DON'T WANT USE TIME TALKING ABOUT THIS. IT'S 10 15 AND WE HAVE ANOTHER PUBLIC HEARING. SO NOT MY FAULT AT 10 15. TIM, I UNDERSTAND YOU DIDN'T START THE MEETING ON TIME. YOU TOOK BREAKS. SO DON'T HOLD ME RESPONSIBLE. THE BUDGET IS A VERY IMPORTANT PART OF THE TOWN AND PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING WRONG WITH THE BUDGET. SO I THINK YOU WILL WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THE ANSWER WHETHER YOU'RE GOING TO BREAK YOUR STANDARD RULES SPEAKING, YOU ALLOW TWO TIMES HE'S ASKING A QUESTION. NO, CHRIST SAKE, START THE CLOCK. MR. SAMS, HAVE YOU STARTED YET WITH YEAH, HE, NO, I HAVE NOT STARTED TALKING. THEY'RE REALLY AFRAID, AREN'T THEY? ARE YOU, YOU ASKING MR. SAMS START? MRS. YOU ASKED THE QUESTION. DID YOU GET YOUR QUESTION ANSWERED? I DID NOT GET MY ANSWER QUESTION ANSWERED. ARE YOU ALLOWING MORE THAN ONE FIVE MINUTES BEAT? WE'RE NOT SURE. BUT MR. SAMON, YOU WANT YOU TO START, WE WANT YOU TO START. I WILL START AND I KNOW YOU HAVE SOME GOOD COMMENTS. YES, I'M SURE WE DO. OKAY, LET'S START FROM MR. FINDER'S EMAIL TO ME ON NOVEMBER 30TH. WE HAVEN'T AS A BOARD DISCUSSED THE BUDGET AT ALL SO FAR IN OPEN OR CLOSE SESSIONS. ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? OKAY, LET'S LOOK AT, MS. BEVILLE HAD RAISED A POINT, WHICH YOU HAVEN'T RESPONDED TO FAVORABLY. SHE'S ASKED FOR ANOTHER $40,000 FOR HER DEPARTMENT, WHICH APPARENTLY YOU'RE NOT WILLING TO GRANT, YOU DON'T HAVE THE MONEY. IS THAT THE ISSUE? YOU'RE TRYING TO KEEP TAXES DOWN. MS. BEVILLE, WHO NOT ONLY AS TOWN CLERK, HAS INTRODUCED THE FARMER'S MARKET IN HARSDALE BRINGING MUSIC THERE. MR. FINER, YOU MADE A BIG DEAL OUT OF IT. SHE'S INTRODUCED THE INTERNS TO THIS TOWN. MR. FINER, YOU'VE MADE A BIG DEAL OVER THAT. SHE'S INTRODUCED THE FOOD MARKET AT TOWN HALL. YOU'VE MADE A BIG DEAL OVER THAT. SO SHE ASKS YOU FOR $40,000 MORE FOR HER DEPARTMENT AND YOU'RE UNWILLING TO GIVE IT. WHERE DO YOU HIDE THE MONEY? TAXPAYERS WANT TO GET SMART HERE AND REALIZE THAT WHEN THE MAJOR PART OF THE BUDGET PERSONNEL EMPLOYMENT WENT UP, THAT SOMETHING HAD TO GO DOWN TO KEEP THE TAXES THE SAME AND GO DOWN. THEY DID $9 MILLION FROM FUND BALANCE. BUT LET ME SHOW THE TAXPAYERS THE WAY YOU REALLY MOVE THE MONEY AROUND PAGE 49, [01:50:01] THE BUDGET JUDGE JUDGMENTS AND CLAIMS EVERY YEAR. AND I GO BACK YEARS. YOU SPEND ABOUT $500,000 IN THESE ARI CLAIMS. THAT'S ALL IT IS. IT'S NOT JEROME MOORE, IT'S JUST CER. EVERY YEAR YOU BUDGET 2 MILLION. SO WHAT YOU'RE SHOWING HERE IS THIS YEAR TOO, YOU'RE GONNA COME IN AROUND 500,000 AND YOU'VE BUDGETED THIS YEAR 2 MILLION. AND FOR NEXT YEAR YOU'VE BUDGETED 2 MILLION. AGAIN, THIS GIVES YOU 1,000,005 TO PLAY AROUND WITH OF TAXPAYERS MONEY THAT ISN'T REALLY NEEDED. THIS IS WHERE YOU GET YOUR LITTLE EXTRA SPENDING MONEY. BUT YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FOR MS. BEVILLE FOR $40,000. DO YOU? THAT'S A LITTLE GAME YOU PLAY. THIS IS THE MOST OBVIOUS. THERE'S OTHER EXAMPLES, BUT I DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO GO THROUGH ALL THE EXAMPLES. YOU'VE CUT BACK YOUR SIDEWALKS, YOU'VE GOT YOUR AWARD NOW FOR BEING MR. SIDEWALK, BUT THERE ARE NO SIDEWALKS GONNA HAPPEN NEXT YEAR BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT BUDGETING ANY MONEY FOR IT. THAT'S NOT TRUE. OH, THAT'S NOT TRUE. TELL ME WHICH ONES ARE GOING FORWARD. UH, NORTH WASHINGTON. NO IT ISN'T. YES IT IS. THAT'S NOT WHAT I UNDERSTAND. NO, NORTH WASHINGTON, PAUL, PAUL, PAUL DON'T INTERRUPT BECAUSE THEY'RE THE TOWN CLERKS AND, AND HILLSIDE AVENUE GONNA, ARE YOU GONNA TELL US NOW ABOUT HILLSIDE AVENUE, THE PROPOSED SITE OF A NEW COURT AND POLICE STATION? YOU TOOK THE $9 MILLION OUT OF THE FUND BALANCE THAT WAS GONNA GO TOWARDS THAT. WE HAVE A FUND BALANCE FOR A RAINY DAY FUND. SO THAT'S WHY WHEN YOU TOOK THE $9 MILLION AWAY TO KEEP THE TAXES DOWN, WHAT YOU DID WAS YOU TOOK THE MONEY THAT WE HAD PUT ASIDE TOWARDS THE COURT AND POLICE STATION. IT AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN. AND THIS IS THE THIRD ROUND OF IT NOT HAPPENING BECAUSE THIS IS HOW YOU PLAY THE GAME. AND WHAT IS THE FUN BALANCE YOU THINK RICH UNCLE DIED AND LEFT THE TOWN OF GREENBURG $10 MILLION. WE GET A FUND BALANCE ONLY BECAUSE OF THE GAMES YOU PLAY. LIKE I TOLD YOU WITH JU SOORI JUDGMENTS WHERE YOU PUT DOWN A BUDGET THAT SAYS WE'RE GONNA SPEND THIS MUCH AND WE'RE GOT THIS MUCH COMING IN, NO TAX INCREASE. THE REALITY IS THE MONEY THAT GETS IN THE FUND BALANCE COMES FROM ALL THE FICTITIOUS EXPENSES THAT YOU PUT AGAINST REVENUES. IT'S THE TAXPAYER'S MONEY THAT THEY SHOULDN'T HAVE TO BE PAYING UNLESS YOU ARE TELLING THEM IT'S SPECIFICALLY FOR A FUND BALANCE. AND WHY DO WE HAVE THE MINIMUM FUND BALANCE AFTER YOU TAKE THE $9 MILLION OUT? BECAUSE NOT EVERYONE PAYS THEIR TAXES AND TIME AND THERE ARE THINGS THAT HAPPEN THAT ARE UNANTICIPATED AND THAT'S WHY TO GET YOUR BOND RATING, YOU HAVE TO MAINTAIN A CERTAIN LEVEL OF FUND BALANCE. BUT NO, YOU WANNA PLAY THE GAME OF TELLING THE TAXPAYERS, OH, YOU DON'T HAVE TO PAY TAXES. THAT'S ALL THEY WANT TO HEAR. NOT GOING UP THIS YEAR. YOU DON'T WANNA TELL THEM OF THE PUNISHMENT, THE REDUCTION IN SERVICES THAT THEY'RE PAYING FOR. YOU DON'T WANNA TELL 'EM THAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, IF YOU TALK ABOUT COMPARISON WITH LOCAL GOVERNMENTS, UNDERSTAFFED BY A MAJOR NUMBER PER THOUSAND POPULATION. ALRIGHT, THANKS MR. THOMAS. ARE WE ALLOWING A SECOND ROUND OF FIVE MINUTES? WE'LL, WE'LL SEE WHO'S NEXT AND THEN WE'LL SEE. OKAY. ANYBODY WANT TO SPEAK? ACTUALLY, ACTUALLY THERE NO ONE ELSE HAS REQUESTED TO SPEAK ON. THERE IS A SPEAKER ON ZOOM. I JUST WOULD LIKE TO NOTE AND AND BEFORE THAT SPEAKER BEGINS, I JUST WANNA THANK MR. SAMS FOR SPEAKING UP ON BEHALF OF THE OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERK. I WAS NOT AWARE OF THAT POSSIBILITY OF AVAILABLE FUNDS AND YOU'VE MADE THE PUBLIC AWARE AS WELL AS MYSELF AND I THANK YOU. DO WE WANNA LET, UH, UH, ALLOW A SECOND? UH, WELL NOW MICHELLE WANTS TO SPEAK PAUL REMOTELY? NOPE. OKAY. MICHELLE BROWN IS ON ZOOM. HI, CAN I HEAR MY FIVE MINUTES TO MR. SAVAGE? NO, YOU CANNOT. NO, YOU HAVE TO SPEAK. OKAY, THEN I JUST WANNA FOLLOW UP ON THE $40,000. IS THIS BUDGET FINALIZED? I'M TALKING ABOUT THE MONEY THAT NO, THERE'S A PUBLIC HEARING. NO, AND IT WAS A, OKAY, THERE'S A QUESTION. IS THE BUDGET FINALIZED? [01:55:01] NO, WE, WE HAVEN'T APPROVED THE BUDGET. WE'RE DOING THAT NEXT WEEK. OKAY. UM, I HAD ASKED LAST WEEK, LAST MEETING, HOW DO WE FIND OUT, UM, ON THE FOLLOW UP FOR THE TOWN CLERK'S REQUEST TO HAVE HER EMPLOYEE BECOME FULL-TIME AND INCREASE SALARY OR INCREASE HER BUDGET BY 40 GRAND? HOW DO WE FOLLOW UP ON THAT BEFORE YOU VOTE? IS THIS THE ONLY DAY WE GET TO TALK ABOUT IT AND THEN YOU VOTE? OR HOW DOES THAT WORK? I'M, I'M, I'M JUST ASKING, THIS IS REALLY THE ONLY TIME RIGHT NOW. I THINK THE BOARD WILL BE VOTING I BELIEVE MAYBE MONDAY THE 13TH. SO YOU MIGHT WANNA RAISE ALL YOUR COMMENTS AND THE BOARD WILL CONSIDER THOSE COMMENTS. MS. BROWN. WELL THAT'S MY COMMENT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MS. BROWN AS WELL FOR YOUR COMMENT AND YOUR QUESTION IN SUPPORT AND IN ADVOCACY OF MY DEPARTMENT. THANK YOU. UH, SHOULD WE, MR. SAMS, DO YOU WANNA SPEAK A SECOND TIME? YES. WELL THANK YOU MS. BEVILLE. AND LET ME THROW SOMETHING BACK AT YOU TOO. MS. BEVILLES DEPARTMENT TOWN CLERK AS HEAD OF THE DEPARTMENT, IS ONE OF THE LOWEST PAID DEPARTMENT HEADS IN THE TOWN BY 20 TO $30,000 UNDER AS MUCH AS 40 TO $50,000 AT THE UPPER END. HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THAT? IS IT SOME KIND OF INTERACTION PERHAPS BETWEEN MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD AND MISS BEVILLE? LET'S TALK ABOUT THE TOWN COUNCIL. NOW YOU ARE ALL PEOPLE WHO'VE RUN FOR OFFICE AND ISN'T THAT WONDERFUL? YOU'VE WON YOUR ELECTIONS AND YOU ARE SITTING THERE AND YOU ARE SITTING IN PART-TIME JOBS. PART-TIME JOBS PAY VERY WELL IN THIS TOWN. 2021, $35,700 2022. YOU'RE TAKING THE SAME RAISE THAT YOU NEGOTIATED FOR ALL THE UNION EMPLOYEES, BUT YOU ARE GONNA TAKE IT AS WELL AS MANAGEMENT. SO YOU'RE GOING UP TO $36,500, ANOTHER $855. THIS FOLLOWS A YEAR OF COVID IN WHICH, NOT THAT YOU EVER DO ANYTHING IMPORTANT OR SPEND MUCH TIME BUT A YEAR, WHICH CERTAINLY YOU DID THE MINIMAL. SO I THINK IT WOULD BE A GOOD GESTURE SINCE YOU'RE WORRYING ABOUT TAXPAYERS SO MUCH AND PAYING THEIR WATER BILLS. NOW, THAT MAYBE WOULD BE NICE IF YOU THREW YOUR RAISES BACK INTO THE POOL, BUT YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT THE ONLY MONEY YOU GET BECAUSE THE PUBLIC HAS TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THIS PART-TIME POSITION HAS REALLY VOTED FOR AND ALLOW THEMSELVES AND WHY IT'S SO DESIRABLE TO HAVE THAT POSITION. NOT BECAUSE YOU'RE INTERESTED IN THE TOWN OR THE TAXPAYERS, BUT REALLY IT'S ALL ABOUT THE MONEY, ISN'T IT? USUALLY IF YOU DON'T TAKE THE INSURANCE THAT'S OFFERED TO THE TOWN, YOU GET A BUYOUT $14,700, RIGHT, MR. SHEHAN, RIGHT? MS. JACKSON, RIGHT? UH, WHAT'S YOUR NAME? OH YEAH. DIANA JETER. ALWAYS FORGET THAT. ANOTHER 14,700. NOW WHEN JOAN DOAK LEFT THE TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE, YOU CREATE A POSITION FOR HER AS CONFIDENTIAL SECRETARY TO THE TOWN BOARD AND SHE'S GETTING 85,400 GOING UP TO 87,400. I'M NOT EVEN QUITE SURE WHAT SHE DOES FOR THAT MONEY, BUT THERE WASN'T THAT POSITION BEFORE. SO AS OVERWORKED AS YOU ALL ARE, I'M GONNA SAY GOLLY, YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU ALL ARE GETTING ONE QUARTER OF HER SALARY TO DO THE WORK FOR YOU. SO NOW YOU ARE 35, YOU'RE 36,500, 2022 GOES UP TO OVER $76,000 WHEN YOU ADD IN JOAN DOAK, YOUR SHARE AND YOUR INSURANCE BUYOUT. AND IT'S ONLY A PART-TIME POSITION. AND I HAVEN'T FACTORED IN ALL THE OTHER PARTS OF THE COST TO THE RUN AS EMPLOYEES PERKS, AS WELL AS NEW YORK STATE RETIREMENT BENEFITS AS WELL AS THE COPAYS ON SOCIAL SECURITY AND ALL THE OTHER STUFF. [02:00:01] GENERALLY THOSE ARE FIGURED AT 30%. SO IT'S VERY EXPENSIVE FOR TAXPAYERS TO HAVE FOUR OF YOU SITTING THERE AND DOING NOTHING BUT TAKING BREAKS DURING THE PUBLIC MEETING THAT WE HAVE TO SIT THROUGH WAITING FOR YOU TO COME BACK AND START THE MEETING EVEN ON TIME. SO YOU'RE GOING TO VOTE ON ALL THIS. YOU HAVE NO SHAME FOR TAKING THIS MONEY. AND THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS RECOGNIZE THE FACT THAT YOU ARE NOT FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES, BUT PART-TIME EMPLOYEES. YOU ALL HAVE OTHER JOBS, DAY JOBS. THAT'S WHY WE HAVE MEETINGS STARTING AT WORK SESSIONS AT THE END OF THE DAY, NOT DURING BUSINESS HOURS, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY SO YOU CAN GET HERE FROM YOUR OTHER JOBS. SO YOU'RE GETTING PART-TIME JOBS, IT'S COSTING TAXPAYERS WITH ALL THE BENEFITS AND EVERYTHING FACTORED IN ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR EACH OF YOU TO SIT THERE AND LOOK BORED DURING THESE PUBLIC MEETINGS. NICE WORK AND YOU GOT IT. UM, IF, UH, NO. ANYBODY ELSE WANNA SAY ONE MORE REQUEST TO SPEAK? UH, CLIFF ABRAMS. MR. ABRAMS, ARE YOU THERE? YEAH, HE'S COMING IN. OH, GOT IT. CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? YES. OH, HOW EVERYBODY DOING? UM, SO I AM IN SUPPORT OF THE TOWN CLERK GETTING THE RAISE. UM, I CAN REMEMBER WHEN UM, JOAN WAS WORKING FOR THE TOWN CLERK THAT SHE WAS PICKED. SHE DIDN'T WANNA WORK NO MORE FOR THE TOWN CLERK. YOU TOOK HER OUT OF THE TOWN CLERK, I GUESS YOU WERE PLAYING A MAJOR ROLE AT THE TOWN CLERK IN HER POSITION. YOU TOOK HER OUT OF THE, THERE, Y'ALL MADE UP A POSITION FOR HER. I DON'T KNOW IF SHE'S A PERSONAL FOR SOMEBODY OR FOR THE WHOLE TOWN BOARD, BUT SHE'S GETTING GOOD MONEY AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND. TOOK SOMEBODY OUT OF THE TOWN CLERK OFFICE AND ALL THE TOWN CLERK HAS ASKED FOR THE HOUSING THOUSAND. I DON'T SEE THAT'S LIKE A DROP IN A BUCKET IF YOU'RE PAYING SOMEBODY 86 TO $87,000 WITH BENEFITS. AND WE CONSTANTLY COME HERE AND WE ARE TOLD THAT YOU ARE GOING TO HEAR WHAT WE SAYING. EVEN THOUGH I SEE CERTAIN PEOPLE LIKE KEN BE ON HIS PHONE WHILE WE TALKING, LIKE TOTAL DISRESPECTING THAT LIKE ALL LIKE WHAT WE SAYING DON'T MEAN NOTHING. AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THAT'S A PROBLEM TO GIVE SOMEBODY THE TOWN CLERK THAT RACE. AND THEN YOU'LL SAY THAT THE THE BOARD IS GOING TO ANSWER US. BUT WHEN DO YOU ANSWER US? BECAUSE I'VE BEEN COMING HERE FOR FIVE YEARS EVERY SECOND OR FOURTH WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH. AND NEVER ONCE HAVE I EVER GOT ANSWER BACK ON THE QUESTION THAT WE'VE BEEN ANSWERED. IT'S 10 30 AT NIGHT AND IT SHOWS Y'ALL HOW MUCH YOU'LL RESPECT THE PUBLIC COMMENTS. 'CAUSE I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST STARTED COMING TO THE BOARD MEETINGS AT SEVEN 30 WHEN IT FIRST STARTED, WE HAD THREE MINUTES. AND IF WE DIDN'T AND IF WE WANTED OUR FIVE MINUTES, THEN WE HAD TO WAIT TILL 10 30 OR 11 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT TO GET OUR FIVE MINUTES. BUT ALICIA, GIVE US A RESPECT TO LET US SPEAK HOW WE FEEL ABOUT OUR COMMUNITY. YOU SAY IT'S PUBLIC COMMON, SO YOU MUST REALLY DON'T CARE ABOUT THE PUBLIC BECAUSE THE PEOPLE THAT Y'ALL HAVE ON THE AGENDA, MOST OF THEM IS ON THE CLOCK. AND WE WAITING ON OUR OWN FREE TIME TO COME SPEAK AND EXPECT YOU TO GIVE US SOME TYPE OF ANSWER. AND YOU'LL FEEL YOU DON'T HAVE TO. YOU KNOW WHY THAT HAPPENS? THAT HAPPENS BECAUSE THERE'S NO TURN LIMITS. AND YOU COULD BE, YOU COULD MAKE A CAREER OUT OF BEING ON THE CHANNEL BOARD BECAUSE ANYBODY THAT NEED MORE THAN EIGHT YEARS, I NEED TO GIVE YOU 12 YEARS AFTER THAT. PEOPLE NEED TO MOVE ON ON. BECAUSE WHEN YOU DON'T MOVE ON, THAT'S WHEN YOU DO WHAT YOU'LL DO TO US. YOU'LL SIT HERE, YOU ARE BOARD, YOU'LL DO, YOU'LL CHOOSE. YOU PICK AND CHOOSE WHO YOU WANT TO SHOW RESPECT TO AND WHO YOU DON'T WANT TO SHOW RESPECT TO. AND I SEE IT. I COME HERE, I'VE COME HERE ON A REGULAR BASIS AND I SEE HOW WHEN BLACKS COME UP HERE, WE TALK ABOUT BLACK ISSUES AND WE TALK ABOUT PEOPLE BEING [02:05:01] DISPLACED AND BLACK LIVES THAT Y'ALL GET UPSET, Y'ALL SHUT THE MEETING DOWN. BUT THEN WHEN WHITE NEIGHBORHOODS, THE RIVER TOWNS COME YOU'ALL FIND YOU SAY YOU TWO HOURS AND YOU THE TOTAL RESPECT. AND THIS IS WHY WE HAVE ISSUE WITH THIS BOARD HERE. BUT FACT TO MISS, UM, BEVILLE, I THINK THAT THE TOWN SHOULD GIVE THE TAXPAYER HERE AND LET HER HAVE THAT EXTRA LITTLE BIT OF MONEY SHE ANSWERED FOR SINCE YOU TOOK SOMEBODY THAT WAS MAKING 80, 87,000. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MR. ONE MORE SPEAKER. THANK YOU MR. I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU MR. ABRAMS, FOR YOUR STATEMENT OF SUPPORT AND UH, YOUR STATEMENT IN SUPPORT OF, UH, MY DEPARTMENT, THE OFFICE OF THE TOWN CLERK. THANK YOU. AND I JUST WANNA CLARIFY FOR THE PUBLIC THAT UH, THE 40,000 WAS REQUESTED TO, UH, UH, ADD TO A PART-TIME POSITION TO MAKE IT INTO A FULL-TIME POSITION. AND YES, I DID ASK FOR A SALARY INCREASE AND I WAS TOLD THAT THAT ELECTED OFFICIALS ARE NOT BEING GRANTED SALARY INCREASES. HOWEVER, A REQUEST HAS BEEN MADE TO THE TOWN BOARD TO INCREASE THE SALARIES OF ELECTED OFFICIALS IN A PARTICULAR DEPARTMENT. AND THAT REQUEST IS BEING CONSIDERED A $40,000 INCREASE WAS GIVEN TO THE ASSESSOR'S OFFICE DURING THE YEAR OF 2021 AND DENIED MY OFFICE. I DO. MICHELLE, OH, GO AHEAD. I'M SORRY. NO, GO AHEAD. SPEAK. NO, YOU CAN GO AHEAD FRANCIS. I DIDN'T MEAN TO CUT YOU. NO, I I NO. ARE YOU STARTING OR FIVE MINUTES OR YOU'RE YOU HAVEN'T STARTED? NO, I I'LL START IF YOU WANT ME TO. UM, THIS IS MICHELLE BROWN. I WANTED TO SAY THE PLOT THICKENS, RIGHT? UM, THIS IS SO DISCRIMINATORY. I MEAN IT IS, IT'S BLATANTLY RACIST BEHAVIOR. SYSTEMIC RACISM. I MEAN, YOU ARE BEING TOLD THAT YOU'VE GIVEN MONEY TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS. YOU'RE CONSIDERING INCREASING SALARIES FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE ELECTED, BUT YOU'RE NOT WILLING TO LOOK AT HERS. I MEAN, COME ON. THIS IS RIDICULOUS. THIS IS A VERY PRESTIGIOUS OFFICE, THE TOWN CLERK. SHE'S SAYING I NEED TO INCREASE THE, THE HOURS AND THE TIME OF A PERSON THAT WORKS WITH ME. SO I CAN STILL BE EFFICIENT. NOT BECAUSE SHE JUST WANTS TO HAVE SOMEBODY AND GET 40 GRAND. SHE'S TRYING TO RUN EFFICIENTLY. AND, AND YOU KNOW, AGAIN, WHEN DO WE FIND OUT WHEN YOU VOTE AND WE SEE THAT IT DIDN'T HAPPEN FOR THE THIRD YEAR, THIS IS UNREASONABLE. THERE'S NO WAY THAT YOU ALL CANNOT SIT WITH HER AND FIGURE SOMETHING OUT BEFORE YOU VOTE SOMETHING. I MEAN, SOME COMPROMISE TO JUST SAY NO, THAT'S UNREASONABLE. YOU CAN'T GIVE HER 40 NEGOTIATE 20 AND THREE YEARS. YOU COULD HAVE GET GONE ON THE THIRD YEAR. I MEAN, DIVIDE THAT OUT BY 40. SHE COULD HAVE BEEN HIT HER NUMBER BY NOW. NO WAY. YOU COULD HAVE GAVE HER 10 GRAND A YEAR. I MEAN, YOU'RE JUST BEING UNREASONABLE. AND THAT CREATES AN ENVIRONMENT THAT IS HOSTILE. 'CAUSE SHE WORKS WITH YOU. SHE IS YOUR COLLEAGUE ALI. AND IT'S UNACCEPTABLE. AND ME SAYING IT IS NOT GONNA MAKE YOU DO THE RIGHT THING FOR THE RIGHT REASON. AND AGAIN, IT TAKES THREE VOTES, PEOPLE THREE TO CHANGE ANYTHING. SO YOU ALL NEED TO THINK ABOUT HOW YOU CAST THAT VOTE ON MONDAY FOR THAT BUDGET FOR HER OFFICE. 'CAUSE IT'S NOT JUST ONE PERSON. IT TAKES THREE. THANK YOU. I KEITH LAWSON. YEAH. ACCORDING TO THIS BUDGET, I DON'T KNOW WHO I'M TALKING TO. 'CAUSE I'M GONNA TELL YOU ONE THING. I RETIRED FROM THE MILITARY FOUGHT IN VIETNAM. THE WAY Y'ALL BOARD DID TONIGHT WAS UNCALLED FOR. YOU DISRESPECTED THE WHOLE PUBLIC. YOU GET PAID TO COME HERE. YOU DON'T GET PAID TO TAKE FIVE MINUTE BREAKS. NOW, MR. LAWSON, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE BUDGET, RIGHT? WE GONNA TALK ABOUT THE BUDGET [02:10:02] AND MY NEXT THING, I'M JUST LETTING YOU KNOW HOW I FEEL DISRESPECTED. AND SPEAKING OF THE BUDGET YOU TOOK A LATER OUTTA JUDI'S OFFICE GAVE HER SARAH OF $85,000. AND THEN WHAT YOU ALSO DID, SHE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE JOB YOU PAID, PAID 30 AND 80 WHEN I WENT TO SCHOOL WAS 110,000 BUCKS. AND YOU CAN'T GIVE HER 40,000. I'M GONNA TELL YOU EXACTLY HOW I FEEL ABOUT THAT. THE ONE, THE TWO THAT YOU TRAINED, THE ONE THAT TRAINED HER AND THE OTHER WAS WHITE. YOU REVEAL IS BLACK. THINK ABOUT THAT MONEY. AND I STILL WANT MY THREE MINUTES. YOU HAVE ANYBODY ELSE IF I CAN MOVE? WE CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. UH, BEFORE YOU DO, I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR. 'CAUSE WE KEEP SAYING THAT THE, BASICALLY A LINE WAS TAKEN OUTTA THE TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE. THE TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE HISTORICALLY FROM SUSAN TOLSON. I DON'T KNOW PRIOR TO SUSAN TOLSON, WHO THAT WAS, BUT PEOPLE WHO WERE AROUND A LONG TIME KNOW SUSAN TOLSON WAS THE TOWN CLERK. UM, THEN IT WAS ALFREDA WILLIAMS. HISTORICALLY, THERE'S BEEN FULL THREE FULL-TIME PEOPLE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. THERE'S NEVER BEEN MORE, THERE'S NEVER BEEN FOUR LIKES WHAT WAS BEING REQUESTED. NOW IT'S TRUE. WE TOOK THE WORK OF A FULL-TIME PERSON OUT OF THE TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE, BUT WE DIDN'T TAKE THE LINE. SO THE CLERK WAS ABLE TO FILL THAT LINE. SO SHE WOULD STILL HAVE THREE FULL-TIME PEOPLE AS THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN HISTORICALLY IN THE TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE. SO WE KEEP HEARING THAT WE TOOK A, YOU KNOW, A LINE OUT OF THERE, LIKE AS IF WE LEFT HER WITHOUT SO A, A LINE. THE SALARY THAT WE'RE GIVING HER IS THE SAME AS SHE WAS GETTING IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. THERE IS, I DON'T KNOW WHO THIS $30,000 PERSON IS WHO TRAINED HER BECAUSE SHE KNOWS EVERYTHING THERE IS TO KNOW, UM, ABOUT DOING THE RESPONSIBILITY THAT WE ASSIGNED HER WAS DEALING WITH THE WORKS, THE AGENDAS. SO I JUST WANNA MAKE THE POINT IS THAT THERE HAVE BEEN THREE FULL-TIME PEOPLE HISTORICALLY, THERE'S NEVER BEEN, UH, THREE FULL-TIME, MORE THAN THREE FULL, FULL-TIME PEOPLE. WHAT'S BEING ASKED FOR IS A FOURTH FULL-TIME PERSON. EVEN THOUGH WE TOOK THE WORK OF A FULL-TIME PERSON OUT OF THERE AND IS USING IT FOR, BY THE WAY, IT'S NOT A NEW POSITION. THERE WAS A LEGISLATIVE AID TO THE BOARD. WE WENT WITHOUT THAT PERSON FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. WE THEN REPLACED THAT PERSON. IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO HAVE ONE PERSON FOR FOUR PEOPLE, BUT WE MAKE THAT WORK. AND THE SUPERVISOR HAS A SECRETARY SOLELY TO HIMSELF. THE TOWN COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE SOMEBODY WHO WE CAN CALL IN AND, YOU KNOW, SCHEDULE APPOINTMENTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. I DON'T THINK THAT'S UNREASONABLE, BUT I DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO THINK THAT WE TOOK OUT A FULL-TIME LINE AND SOMEHOW DID SOMETHING TO HER OFFICE. WE, SHE WAS ABLE TO HIRE WHOEVER SHE WANTED TO FILL THAT POSITION. SO SINCE MR. COUNCILMAN SHEEN HAS BROUGHT UP AND OPENED UP THIS DISCUSSION, I AM READY TO CLARIFY THE POINTS. THE PERSON WHO WAS TAKEN OUT OF MY OFFICE IN 2018, YES, WAS THE DEPUTY CLERK WHO I HIRED AND PROVIDED JOB SECURITY FOR. SHE HAD BEEN A UNION EMPLOYEE CAME TO ME AND ASKED ME TO SUPPORT CONVERTING HER POSITION TO A MANAGEMENT POSITION TO OFFER HER MANAGEMENT STATUS. AND I DID SO WHEN SHE WANTED AN OFFICE OF HER OWN. AND I TOLD HER I WAS NOT GOING TO GIVE UP MY CONFERENCE ROOM TO CONVERT IT INTO AN OFFICE. SHE WENT SCREAMING DOWN TO FRANCIS, WHO CONVINCED THE REST OF THE BOARD THAT I WAS GOING TO FIRE HER, WHICH WAS A LIE I NEVER PUT IN WRITING. AND I NEVER STATED OUT OF MY MOUTH THAT I WAS GOING TO FIRE THIS PERSON. BUT ON THE STRENGTH OF A LIE, HE CONVINCED THE REST OF THE TOWN BOARD THAT THEY NEEDED TO PUT HER INTO THIS TOWN [02:15:01] COUNCIL AIDE POSITION. DESPITE REPEATED, REPEATED, AND I SAY TO YOU, REPEATED, REPEATED REQUESTS TO CLARIFY HER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES BECAUSE FRANCIS SHEEN CREATED A RESOLUTION TRANSFERRING SOME OF HER DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES FROM THE CLERK'S OFFICE INTO THE TOWN COUNCIL AID POSITION, WHICH CAN BE CHALLENGED BY LAW BECAUSE YOU ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO TAKE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES FROM AN ELECTED OFFICIAL WITHOUT A REFERENDUM. THIS WAS TOLD TO ME BY THE LAWYERS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF TOWNS NEW YORK STATE. THEY TOOK HER OUTTA MY OFFICE, TRANSFERRED SEVERAL POSITIONS, AND I REPEATEDLY ASKED FOR CLARIFICATION OF THOSE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. THEY IGNORED MY REQUESTS FOR MEETINGS FOR OPPORTUNITIES TO CLARIFY WHAT THIS PERSON IS DOING AS TOWN COUNCIL AIDE WITH DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES THAT WERE TAKEN OUT OF THE CLERK'S OFFICE. NOW, YES, IT IS TRUE THAT THERE HAVE ALWAYS BEEN THREE FULL-TIME POSITIONS IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE. HOWEVER, WHEN THEY TRANSFERRED HER OUT OF MY OFFICE, ALL OF A SUDDEN A TITLE DISAPPEARED CALLED SENIOR OFFICE ASSISTANT. THAT TITLE DISAPPEARED. AND THE COUNTY TELLS ME, OH, WHAT YOU REALLY NEED IS A PERMIT CLERK. THAT'S NOT WHAT I NEEDED AND THAT'S NOT WHAT I ASKED FOR. OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST THREE YEARS, JUST LIKE WITH SEVERAL OTHER DEPARTMENTS IN THIS TOWN, DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES HAVE INCREASED. AND YES, I HAVE ALWAYS HAD THREE FULL-TIME STAFF AND A PART-TIME POSITION. AND I HAVE ASKED FOR THE 40,000 JUST TO MAKE THAT PART-TIME POSITION A FULL-TIME POSITION. NO, A LINE HAS NOT BEEN REMOVED FROM MY OFFICE. HOWEVER, I NEED THE PART-TIME POSITION TO BE MADE INTO A FULL-TIME POSITION. NOW, IF THEY WERE ABLE TO FIND THE FUNDS TO GRANT THE TOWN ASSESSOR THE $40,000 THAT SHE REQUESTED DURING THE COURSE OF THE YEAR 2021 TO ADD TO SOMEONE'S SALARY IN HER DEPARTMENT, BUT, UH, DENYING THE REQUEST FOR ME TO TAKE A PART-TIME POSITION AND MAKE IT INTO A FULL-TIME POSITION TO SERVE THE PUBLIC. THOSE ARE THE FACTS. ALL RIGHT? I JUST HAVE A COUPLE OF POINTS I NEED TO MAKE. I NEVER SAID ANY TO ANYONE THAT THE CLERK WAS GOING TO FIRE THIS PERSON. THAT PERSON WAS QUITTING JUST LIKE TWO OTHER PEOPLE IN THE DEPARTMENT QUIT WITHIN MONTHS OF THAT, SHE HAS THE HIGHEST TURNOVER OF ANY DEPARTMENT IN TOWN HALL. THAT IS NOT TRUE. SO THAT, WELL, I LET YOU SAY YOUR TRUTH. LET ME TELL YOU MINE, I SO SHE WAS GONNA QUIT. TRUTH WAS A DISTORTED ONE. PLEASE DON'T INTERRUPT ME. LIE I DIDN'T INTERRUPT YOU. IT'S A LIE. FRENCH, I DIDN'T INTERRUPT YOU. I LET YOU SIT THERE AND SAY THINGS HAVE THREE PEOPLE IN MY OFFICE. AND SO WHEN TWO QUICK, YEAH, THAT LOOKS LIKE THE HIGH, HIGH TURNOVER. BUT YOU COULD GO AHEAD. YOU CONTINUE. WELL, THAT'S TRUE. YOU HAVE THREE PEOPLE IN YOUR OFFICE AND THREE PEOPLE QUIT. THAT'S A HIGH TURNOVER. UM, AND IT'S NOT, IT'S IT, BUT I'M GONNA CLARIFY THAT SOON. YOU'RE DONE. YOU BETTER BELIEVE THAT. GO AHEAD. OKAY, GO AHEAD. SO I JUST WANNA MAKE A COUPLE OF POINTS. SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S NOT TRUE. SHE WAS LEAVING JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. WE SAVED THE INSTITUTIONAL HISTORY OF SOMEBODY WHO KNOWS HOW TO DO THINGS IN THIS, THAT OFFICE. AND CERTAINLY WHAT WE WERE CONCERNED PRIMARILY WAS WITH AGENDAS. AGENDAS ARE NOT IN STATE LAW REQUIRED IN THE TOWN CLERK'S OFFICE. SO THE RESOLUTION THAT SHE'S ADMITS THAT I WROTE STATED THAT DUTIES THAT ARE NOT RELATED TO THE TOWN CLERK AND ARE RELATED TO THE TOWN BOARD WOULD BE DONE BY THIS PERSON. [02:20:01] BUT EVERYTHING ELSE THAT STATE LAW SAYS THE CLERK MUST DO, LIKE BE HERE OR DO THE MINUTES THAT HAS TO STAY WITH THE CLERK. NOBODY CAN TAKE THAT AWAY. BUT TO SAY THAT YOU NEED A REFERENDUM TO TAKE SOMETHING OUT OF THE CLERK'S OFFICE THAT'S NOT STATED. AND STATE LAW AS A RESPONSIBILITY OF THE CLERK IS BEING MISLEADING. AS BEING MISLEADING. UH, AT BEST IT'S NOT MISLEADING. AND LASTLY, AFTER WE TOOK OUT, WE , I FELL INTO YOUR TRAP. WE TOOK OUT YES. WE DIDN'T AS THE FLIPPED I DON'T, WE DIDN'T FALL INTO ANY TRIAL. COULD YOU TRY NOT TO BE RUDE? I'M NOT BEING RUDE. I'M NOT PROTECTING YOU. I LISTENED TO YOUR ENTIRE STATEMENT AND I DID NOT SAY A WORD DIDN'T. YOU'RE TELLING LIES. WELL, YEAH. WELL, LET'S SEE WHO'S TELLING LIES. AN INDEPENDENT AGENCY EVALUATED THE AMOUNT OF WORK THAT WAS BEING DONE IN THE CLERK'S OFFICE AFTER WE TOOK A FULL THREE, I'LL USE YOUR TERM, A FULL-TIME POSITION OUT OF YOUR, YOUR DEPARTMENT. AND YOU WOULD SAID TO US, IT WOULD BE RACISM. NOT TO LET YOU KEEP THREE PEOPLE, EVEN THOUGH WE TOOK THE WORK OUT. SO WE LET YOU KEEP THREE PEOPLE. THERE WAS NO CHANGE IN THE NUMBER OF PERSONNEL. YOU HAD THREE PEOPLE, BUT YOU HAD TWO PEOPLE DOING THE WORK OF THREE. AND WHEN THE COUNTY CAME IN AND EVALUATED YOUR WRITEUP OF WHAT THEY DO, THEY DETERMINED THAT IT WASN'T THE WORK FOR A SENIOR OFFICE ASSISTANT, IT WAS TO DO A PERMIT CLERK OR WHAT, HOWEVER THEY DOWNGRADED. AND SO THAT WASN'T US DOING IT, THAT WASN'T ME DOING IT. THAT WAS THE COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER. TAKING YOUR WRITEUP, YOUR OWN WRITEUP THAT YOU SUBMITTED TO THE COUNTY IS THIS IS WHAT OUR PEOPLE DO. AND THEY CAME BACK WITH THAT CHANGE IN TITLE. IT MAY NOT BE WHAT YOU WANTED, BUT IT WAS WHAT THE COUNTY SAID SHOULD BE. BUT WE'RE GETTING OFF, WE'RE GETTING OFF THE BUDGET HERE. WE'RE GETTING OFF THE BUDGET HERE. WELL, I'M GONNA FINISH. THE BOTTOM LINE HERE IS THAT FRANCIS SHAN HAS HIS, HAS, UH, PRIOR, UH, IN INAPPROPRIATELY INSERTED HIMSELF INTO THE MY OFFICE FOR SEVERAL YEARS, INFLUENCING AND EMPOWERING THE STAFF WORKING THERE. NOW THE FIRST PERSON WHO RESIGNED RESIGNED BECAUSE SHE WAS CAUGHT RED-HANDED WITH INSUBORDINATION. SHE WAS ASKED NOT TO, TO, TO DO SOMETHING. SHE DID IT. I SOUGHT THE ADVICE OF THE TOWN ATTORNEY WHO SAID, LET'S GET LEGAL ADVICE. WHEN WE SOUGHT LEGAL ADVICE. THAT ATTORNEY OUTSIDE ATTORNEY SAID, DOES SHE HAVE FACEBOOK? WE SAID, YES. HE SAID, LOOK HER UP ON FACEBOOK. WE LOOKED HER UP ON FACEBOOK AND WE FOUND THE EVIDENCE OF WHAT SHE WAS DOING. SO HE ADVISED ME TO DISCIPLINE HER. WHEN I DISCIPLINED HER, SHE FILED A GRIEVANCE AGAINST ME. BUT WHEN THE ATTORNEYS OF THE, UM, UH, UNION FOUND OUT THAT I HAD EVIDENCE AND TOLD HER ABOUT IT, SHE DECIDED TO RESIGN. THAT'S WHY THAT PERSON RESIGNED IN THE FACE OF FACING, UH, UH, UM, CONSEQUENCES DUE TO INSUBORDINATION. THE SECOND ONE, JUDITH, WE DON'T REALLY HAVE TO. THE SECOND ONE ALSO, PAUL, I ASKED THIS DEPUTY TO DO A TASK IN MY OFFICE. SHE REFUSED TO DO IT. AND I THEN I ASKED THE OTHER PERSON TO DO IT. SHE REFUSED TO DO IT. SHE RESIGNED TO NOT FACE CHARGES OF INSUBORDINATION. THE DEPUTY WHO HE'S TALKING ABOUT SAID SHE WAS GOING TO QUIT WHEN SHE WAS ASKED TO TRAIN AN AFRICAN-AMERICAN WOMAN WHO I BROUGHT INTO MY OFFICE THE FIRST TIME IN 10 YEARS, BROUGHT AN AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN INTO MY OFFICE AND I ASKED HER TO SHOW HER SOME OF THE TECHNIQUES AND TASKS OF THE OFFICE, AND SHE REFUSED TO DO IT AND WENT RUNNING DOWN THE HALL CRYING TO FRANCIS. SO THOSE ARE THE FACTS BEHIND WHAT HE HAS JUST STATED. OKAY, I, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE CLOSE PUBLIC AND THAT THE LAST PART IS TOTALLY UNTRUE. WE DON'T HAVE TO HAVE THIS, I UNDERSTAND. A PERSONAL MATTER. CAN'T LET THAT HANG OUT THERE. UNTRUE. CAN'T WE JUST, UH, WE HAVE ANOTHER PUBLIC HEARING. ONE SPEAKER IS AN ADDITIONAL SPEAKER. WHO'S, WHO'S THE LAST SPEAKER? UH, MS. WEEMS. I, I HIT THE BUTTON SO THAT SHE COULD, UH, COME IN AND MAKE HER [02:25:01] COMMENT. I DON'T KNOW IF SHE'S, UH, HAVING TROUBLE TO DO THAT. PAT, UH, MS. WEEMS, IF YOU CAN HEAR US, YOU SHOULD HAVE GOT RECEIVED THE PROMPT, UH, WHICH YOU WOULD HIT THE BUTTON. AND THEN, UH, UH, SHE'S COMING IN. SHE'S COMING IN. OKAY. VERY GOOD. JUST FOR TWO, TWO OTHER HANDS. WERE UP. I BELIEVE. UM, CLIFF AND MICHELLE HAVE A, HAVE A REPORT. CAN YOU HEAR ME? THIS IS PATRICIA WEEMS. CAN YOU HEAR ME? YES, MA'AM. OKAY, I JUST GOT ON. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I'D LIKE TO DISCUSS THREE ITEMS. UH, ONE IS THE FRAGRANT DISCRIMINATION PRACTICES THAT WE HAVE, AN UNINCORPORATED GREENBERG. I SPECIFICALLY SAID UNINCORPORATED GREENBERG. ANYBODY WHO'S HERE IN GREENBERG RECOGNIZES THOSE PROBLEMS. IT'S RELATED TO THE BUDGET, NOT RELATED. UH, YES, IT'S RELATED TO THE BUDGET. ANYTIME I PAY A TAX, WHEN I DISCUSS UNINCORPORATED GREENBERG AND FLAGRANT DISCRIMINATION, WHICH MEANS WE HAVE TO DISCUSS THE BUDGET, THAT MEANS THAT SOMEBODY IS BEING PAID MONEY. AND I DISAGREE WITH MR. SHEEN 100%. WHETHER HE HAS SAID IS, UM, PARTIALLY TRUE. I WOULD LIKE TO STATE FOR THE BUDGET, UH, THAT, UM, GREENBERG HAS CHANGED RADICALLY. THE DUTIES THAT ARE IN THE OFFICE FOR THE TOWN, UH, CLERK HAVE INCREASED. I AM ONE WHO STICKS TO WHAT ABOUT MY TAXPAYER DOLLAR. I RECOGNIZE THAT WHEN YOU TOOK ONE PERSON OUTTA THAT OFFICE, THAT ONE PERSON WALKED WITH MONEY AND NOT A POSITION IN CIVIL SERVICE. I DO KNOW THAT, UH, MR. SHEER KNOWS OTHER FACTS THAT CONCERN MONEY IN THE BUDGET THAT EXCLUDE AFRICAN AMERICANS AND ANYBODY HISPANICS, AND GO RIGHT ON DOWN THE LINE. SO WHEN YOU'RE GONNA START TALKING ABOUT DISCRIMINATION OR PROBLEMS THAT AFFECTS MY TAXPAYER DOLLAR AND I DON'T LIKE IT. SO THAT'S NUMBER ONE. I WILL SPEAK ON THE OTHER ISSUE. AND WHAT I ALSO DON'T LIKE, I'M NOT GETTING INTO THAT ON TELEVISION. THIS IS TOWN OF GREENBURG. I LIVE HERE. I DON'T LIKE WHAT YOU DID TO MARY, UH, BODEN. THAT'S MY TAXPAYER DOLLAR. MY TAXPAYER DOLLAR. PAUL IS YOU ALWAYS WANNA HELP SOMEBODY. YOU WANNA HELP SOMEBODY IF THEY COME BUGGING MR. PAUL. MR. PAUL, COULD YOU HELP ME WITH A PERSONAL FAVOR? YOUR JOB IS TO DO WHAT IS GOOD FOR THE COMMUNITY AND THE TOWN. MR. BODEN HAS SAID REPEATEDLY, HE IS DEATH. HE SAID IT MORE THAN ONCE, AND HE HAS SAID IT MORE THAN, AND YOU SHOULD HAVE RECOGNIZED HE'S NOT THE ONLY ONE GOING DEATH. WHY HAVE YOU NOT COME UP WITH A CONCLUSION THAT MAYBE WE NEED TO PUT SPECIAL SPEAKERS IN THE BACK OF THE FIRST ROW ON BOTH SIDES OF TOWN HALL, SO THAT WHEN THEY DO COME, THEY HAVE ACCESS TO HEARING. NOW DO YOUR JOB AND STOP ASKING PEOPLE TO COME CRAWLING TO YOU, TELLING YOU THEY CAN'T WALK UPSTAIRS OR WHATEVER IT IS. AND YOU HELP ONE PERSON AND THEN YOU TALK ABOUT IT UNTIL YOU GET ELECTED AGAIN. SO NOW, YES, THAT'S MY TAXPAYER DOLLAR. HE HAS THE RIGHT TO HEAR WHAT WE WANT TO HEAR. YOU DON'T WANNA DO THAT. YOU BETTER FIND ANOTHER REASON WHEN HE COMES TO TOWN HALL TO LISTEN TO WHAT HIS TAXPAYER DOLLAR IS DOING THAT HE CAN HEAR. YOU DON'T HAVE A POLICE OFFICER, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHO THAT POLICE OFFICER WAS, BUT HE'S BEING PAID. HE'S HERE AND HE'S GONNA COME AND STAND UP. WHEN HE SAT DOWN, THE POLICE OFFICER, WHOEVER THAT WAS, SHOULD HAVE MOVED BACK AND SAT DOWN HIMSELF. MY TAXPAYER DOLLAR. SO IS THAT ABOUT THE BUDGET? YES. AND I DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO PAY IT. THANK YOU. YOU CAN GO TO THE NEXT SUBJECT. I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK TO THE NEXT SUBJECT AND DON'T DISCUSS DISCRETIONARY I DISCRIMINATORY PRACTICES HERE, BECAUSE THIS ISN'T THE ISSUE. I, UH, WANNA COMMEND, UH, ANYBODY BLACK THAT WORKS FOR THE THE TOWN, BECAUSE I KNOW THEY MUST BE SITTING IN A POSITION OF DISCRIMINATION. THANK YOU. OKAY. I I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. OF COURSE YOU WOULD. YOU DON'T WANNA COMMENT ON US FINDING SOMETHING ABOUT, UH, MR. BOW A SECOND SPEAKING HEARING. ALL IN FAVOR. THANK YOU. AYE. AYE. YEAH. WAS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. UH, ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. OKAY, NOW WE [ To consider a Local Law which would add a new section (Chapter 335) to the Code of the Town of Greenburgh, entitled “Cannabis,” regarding local municipal opt-out of adult use cannabis on-site consumption businesses [and Cannabis retail dispensaries]] HAVE ONE MORE HEARING. UM, AND THAT IS, UH, TO CONSIDER A LOCAL LAW, WHICH WOULD ADD A NEW SECTION, UH, TO THE CODE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBERG ENTITLED CANNABIS REGARDING LOCAL MUNICIPAL [02:30:01] OPT OUT OF ADULT USE, CANNABIS ON SITE CONSUMPTION BUSINESSES AND CANNABIS RETAIL DISPENSARY. HAS ANYBODY LIKE TO SPEAK ON THAT? I SECOND THE OPENING THE HEARING. AYE, IT'S A GOOD THING WE GOT TO A NON-CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE. ALL ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. ANYBODY LIKE TO SPEAK? YES. PREVIOUSLY, LORRAINE? YEAH, WE DO. LORRAINE PANTO. AND THANK YOU FOR WAITING. LORRAINE. YOU'RE NOT A POKER PLAYER. YOU COULD SEE A FACIAL EXPRESSIONS THROUGH THE MASK. YEAH, I, I APPRECIATE IT. YOU KNOW, I HAVE TO SAY SOMETHING. THERE WOULDN'T BE ENOUGH MONEY FOR ME TO DO THIS JOB. TO TAKE THE ABUSE, THE VERBAL ABUSE IT AND THE WAY PEOPLE SPEAK. IT'S ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE AND DESPICABLE. AND AS A 56 YEAR OLD, I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD HAVE TO WITNESS THIS. IT'S JUST UNACCEPTABLE. OKAY. REGARDLESS OF PAY OR WHATEVER, YOU SIT UP THERE AND IT STATES THAT YOU HAVE TO BE RESPECTFUL, WHETHER IT'S THIS MEETING OR SCHOOL BOARD MEETING. VERY UPSETTING. OKAY, SO I HAVE A COUPLE OF THINGS I WANNA OPT OUTTA THE CANNABIS, UH, DISPENSARY. AND THERE'S A FEW REASONS I DON'T THINK PEOPLE REALIZE THAT. UM, INSURANCE COMPANIES MAKE JUDGMENTS ON RATES FOR CAR INSURANCE WHEN THEY LOOK AT THE STATISTICS. UM, AS FAR AS CAR ACCIDENTS, PEOPLE UNDER THE INFLUENCE STATES THAT HAVE ADOPTED, UM, THE, UH, YOU KNOW, ALL THESE, YOU KNOW, THE LEGALIZATION AND WHATNOT HAVE SEEN A SIX TO 10% INCREASE IN ACCIDENTS. AND IT IS, UM, ALMOST DOUBLE AMONGST TEENAGERS. OKAY? THERE'S OVER 113 DIFFERENT ELEMENTS IN THE PLANT, OKAY? NOW, THE MEDICAL USE OF CANNABIS IS LEGAL WITH THE DOCTOR'S RECOMMENDATION. IN 36 STATES, 12 OTHER STATES HAVE LAWS THAT LIMIT THE HE TETRA HYDRO CARBINOL IN IT. OKAY? SO THE PRINCIPAL PSYCHOACTIVE INGREDIENTS OF CANNABIS. AND ONE, AS I SAID BEFORE, OF AT LEAST 113 TOTAL CA BINS. YOU COULD TELL I DON'T DO THIS. IDENTIFIED IN THE PLANT, ALL OF WHICH HAVE DIFFERENT EFFECTS ON THE BRAIN. SO IMAGINE WE HAVE PEOPLE ALREADY THAT ARE SELF-RIGHTEOUS DRIVERS. THEY HAVE THESE CARS THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE SORT OF AUTONOMOUS, UH, THAT PEOPLE HAVE THEIR PHONES ON. UM, JUST THROW IN SLOWED REFLEXES, OKAY? I MEAN, I, I, UM, DRIVE DOWN WEST HARSDALE AVENUE, AND AS I SAID BEFORE, I'M NOT TRYING TO BRAG THOSE 30 MILE PER HOUR SIGNS I FOUGHT FOR ARE THERE, AND PEOPLE ARE OBLIVIOUS TO THEM. THEY DON'T GIVE A CRAP. THEY SIT ON THE PHONE. SO I'M SITTING HERE THINKING, IF PEOPLE HAVE IMPAIRED JUDGMENT AND THEY HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THEIR MODE COORDINATION, A REACTION TIME, WHAT IS IT GONNA DO FOR THE COMMUNITY AS FAR AS LIKE MORE ACCIDENTS? WILL IT BRING UP OUR TAX, YOU KNOW, OUR TAXES BECAUSE WE NEED MORE POLICE? UM, YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS IS LIKE A REAL CONCERN, OKAY? AND ALSO, IF YOU HAVE, UM, THIS TYPE OF PLACE THAT SELLS CANNABIS, IS IT GONNA BE THE GUMMIES WHICH ARE EVEN MORE POTENT AND MORE DANGEROUS? SO AS A DRIVER, AS A TAXPAYER, AND AS A HUMAN BEING CARING ABOUT CHILDREN AND EVERYBODY IN MY COMMUNITY, I THINK IT'S TERRIBLE. NOW, THIS IS, UM, THIS ALSO I FEEL IS SOMETHING THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT. UM, OPERATION PAPER PLATE. 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, I WANNA TALK ABOUT DRIVING, UM, IN GENERAL. SO I'M OPTING OUT FOR THE, UH, CANNABIS, BUT I WANT PEOPLE TO BE AWARE THAT OPERATION PAPER PLATE, PEOPLE ARE DRIVING AROUND WITH PAPER PLATE LICENSES, EVADING TRAFFIC LIGHTS, EVADING TOLLS. AND WHAT'S HAPPENING IS IT IS, IT'S EXPLODING JUST IN YONKERS, UH, THE, THEY SEIZED 56 CARS, WHICH RESULTED IN $80,000 IN FINES, RED LIGHTS, TOLL, EVASIONS, ET CETERA, OKAY? BECAUSE THESE CARS, THESE FAKE PLATES ARE VIRTUALLY UNTRACEABLE. AND THIS IS A NATIONWIDE PROBLEM. THIS IS IMPACTING US. IT'S IMPACTING US IN THIS COMMUNITY. IT'S IMPACTING US ACROSS THE STATE. IT'S IMPACTING US IN OTHER STATES, OKAY? BECAUSE IN YONKERS, THE PEOPLE THAT HAD THEIR CARS IMPOUNDED, UM, A LOT OF THEM WERE FROM NEW JERSEY, A LOT OF THEM WERE FROM PENNSYLVANIA. OKAY? SO THIS IS A NATIONWIDE PROBLEM. AND, UM, I JUST HEARD ON THE, ON 10, 10 WINDS THAT GARDEN STATE PARKWAY WENT UP AS FAR AS COST IN 2020, AND THEY'RE FORCED TO RAISE THEIR TOLLES AGAIN. NOW I HAVE ONE MORE THING I WANNA TALK ABOUT. I KNOW THAT YOU'RE PROBABLY LIKE, WELL, YOU KNOW, WHAT DOES THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAVE TO DO WITH US, LORRAINE? THIS IS A HERE PUBLIC HEARING ON CANNABIS. WHAT? THERE'S A PUBLIC HEARING ON CANNABIS AND YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT PAPER PLACE. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO, UM, SO BASICALLY I JUST WANTED TO COVER THE, UM, OPERATION PAPER PLATE, BECAUSE I ALSO THINK THAT THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE DRIVING, UM, YOU KNOW, TOTALLY STONED ON WHATEVER, [02:35:01] AND THEY, THEY BASICALLY ELUDE. SO THAT'S ANOTHER THING. WE HAVE SO MANY ISSUES THAT ARE IMPACTING DRIVING, UM, AND ALSO LIVING ON A BUSY STREET. I SMELL POT ALL THE TIME. SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE WANNA WELCOME THIS ONE MORE THING. THERE'S SOMEONE IN THE COMMUNITY, AND I KNOW HIS NUMBER ONE GOAL IN TRYING TO PUSH THIS IS BECAUSE HE WANTS TO BRING A MORE TAX REVENUE. AND IT'S NO ONE HERE. IT'S JUST SOMEONE IN GENERAL WHO HAS NOTHING BETTER TO DO THAN THINK WE NEED MORE TAX REVENUE BY DESTROYING THE LIVES OF OTHERS. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO SPEAK? I I JUST WANNA BE CLEAR, IF YOU'RE SMELLING MARIJUANA NOW, JUST WAIT. BECAUSE WE ARE NOT REGULATING THAT PEOPLE THINK THAT WE CAN BAN MARIJUANA IN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG. WE CAN'T DO THAT. THE STATE'S ALREADY SAID MARIJUANA IS LEGAL. IF YOU LIVE IN AN APARTMENT BUILDING, YOU'RE LIKELY GONNA SMELL MARIJUANA BEING SMOKED IN THE APARTMENT NEXT TO YOU. WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING ON THIS BOARD ABOUT THAT, RIGHT? IT'S DOWN TO WHETHER OR NOT WE WILL ALLOW LOUNGES, LIKE CIGAR LOUNGES, BUT MARIJUANA SMOKING LOUNGES, THAT'S BEFORE US. I THINK THAT'S MORE TO THE POINT OF YOU SAYING, WE DON'T WANT PEOPLE DRIVING HIGH BECAUSE THEY WOULD BE SMOKING IN A LOUNGE MARIJUANA AND THEN GETTING, POSSIBLY GETTING INTO A CAR AND LEAVING DISPENSARIES. YOU CAN'T, THEY, YOU CAN'T SMOKE IN A DISPENSARY AND YOU CAN'T SMOKE IN A CAR, RIGHT? AND SO THERE'S A DIFFERENCE, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DISCERN FROM THE PUBLIC IS NOT WHETHER OR NOT WE WANT TO BAN MARIJUANA. WE DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY TO DO THAT, RIGHT? AND IT'S GONNA BE FRUSTRATING. SO I JUST, WHAT WE REALLY WANT TO KNOW IS DISPENSARIES VERSUS LOUNGES, OR BOTH, OR NEITHER. WHAT DO? DOREEN WILSON, GOOD EVENING. I CAN ALMOST SAY IT'S GOOD MORNING. , UH, MEMBERS OF THE TOWN BOARD, THE COUNCIL OF GREENBURG CIVIC ASSOCIATIONS, THE C G C A HAS REACHED OUT TO ITS MEMBER CIVIC GROUP REPRESENTATIVES SEEKING THEIR OPINIONS REGARDING WHETHER TO PERMIT RETAIL CANNABIS DISPENSARIES AND OR ONSITE CANNABIS CONSUMPTION LOUNGES IN UNINCORPORATED GREENBURG. THE OVERWHELMING RESPONSE HAS BEEN THAT THE TOWN SHOULD VOTE TO OPT OUT. BEFORE THE DECEMBER 31ST, 2021 DEADLINE, ONE REPRESENTATIVE RECOMMENDED OPTING IN AT THE PRESENT TIME. HOWEVER, ALL OTHER REPRESENTATIVES RESPONDED THAT THE TOWN SHOULD OPT OUT, AT LEAST FOR THE PRESENT TIME. SEVERAL REPRESENTATIVES SUGGESTED AWAITING REGULATIONS FROM THE CANNABIS CONTROL BOARD AND THEN ADOPTING THE NECESSARY GREENBERG ZONING LEGISLATION REGARDING THE TIME, PLACE, AND MANNER OF LOCATING EACH ESTABLISHMENT IN UNINCORPORATED GREENBURG BEFORE A DECISION IS MADE TO OPT IN AT A LATER DATE. BASED ON THE SURVEY, THE C G C A URGES THE TOWN BOARD TO PASS A LOCAL LAW TO OPT OUT AT THE PRESENT TIME. IT IS ACKNOWLEDGED THAT PASSAGE OF SUCH A LOCAL LAW OPTING OUT WOULD BE SUBJECT TO A PERMISSIVE REFERENDUM IF VOTERS COLLECTED SUFFICIENT SIGNATURES ON A PETITION WITHIN A SPECIFIC TIME. SINCE THIS ISSUE APPEARS TO BE QUITE CONTROVERSIAL, THE C G C A URGES THE TOWN BOARD TO DECIDE ON ITS OWN MOTION TO PLACE THIS ISSUE BEFORE THE VOTERS AND SCHEDULE A REFERENDUM, RATHER THAN WAITING FOR THE CIRCULATION AND FILING OF A PROPER PETITION. SINCERELY WRITTEN BY ELLA PRIZE, THE SECRETARY OF THE C G C A. THANK YOU, YOUR HONOR. I JUST WANTED TO ASK, YOU KNOW, I SEE, YOU KNOW, CHIEF LONGWORTH IS, IS HERE. I'M WONDERING IF, UM, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, THE POLICE ASSOCIATION OR IF YOU HAVE ANY, YOU KNOW, ANY, YOU KNOW, ANY, UH, PERSONAL, YOU KNOW, THOUGHTS IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, PUBLIC SAFETY AND, UM, YOU KNOW, AND, AND YOU KNOW, DRIVING, YOU KNOW, ISSUES BECAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE A FACTOR IN, YOU KNOW, MY DECISION, MY PERSONAL DECISION. WHILE THE CHIEF IS COMING UP, I JUST WANT TO ADD THAT THE CLERK'S OFFICE HAS BEEN 100% STABLE SINCE MR. SHEHAN IS NO LONGER INVOLVED IN MANIPULATING THE EMPLOYEES HERE. I DON'T WANT TO JUST, LET'S FOCUS, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT IT HAS BEEN 100% STABLE OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS. THAT'S PATHETIC SINCE HE DISMANTLED THE OFFICE. LET'S, AND IS NO LONGER INVOLVED. IT'S A PATHETIC STATEMENT, CHIEF. PATHETIC OR NOT? OKAY. LET'S, LET'S JUST FOCUS ON, ON THIS HEARING CHIEF, YOU KNOW, WITH REGARD TO THE MARIJUANA, IT'S EFFECT ON MOTOR VEHICLE OPERATION. IT'S CERTAINLY A HAZARD TO MOTORISTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY ON THE ROAD. AND, UH, ONE OF THE MAJOR PROBLEMS WITH IT IS IT'S NOT AS DETECTABLE TO POLICE OFFICERS WHO MAKE CAR [02:40:01] STOPS OR RESPOND TO AUTO ACCIDENT SCENES AS YOU DON'T HAVE THE ODOR OF ALCOHOL AND THE SAME PHYSICAL EFFECTS THAT ALCOHOL GIVES TO INTOXICATED DRIVERS. SO IT'S DEFINITELY PROBLEMATIC. I THINK, UH, THE LEGALIZATION COULD VERY WELL LEAD TO AN INCREASE IN MOTOR VEHICLE ACCIDENTS FOR SURE. AND I THINK THE DATA IS STARTING TO SHOW THAT ALREADY IN OTHER STATES ACROSS THE COUNTRY. UM, BUT IT IS THE LAW IN NEW YORK STATE NOW THAT IT'S LAWFUL TO POSSESS. SO WOULD YOU RECOMMEND TO THE TOWN BOARD THAT WE OPT OUT OF BOTH THE DISPENSARIES AND THE, YOU KNOW, AND THE LOUNGES AND YOU KNOW, AND SORT OF FROM WHAT I HEARD, BE MORE, UH, MORE CAREFUL OR, UH, YOU KNOW, THE ONLY CONCERN, YOU KNOW, THAT I HAVE, BECAUSE I'M SORT OF, I'VE BEEN UNDECIDED AND I'VE BEEN ONE DAY YES, ONE DAY. NO. YEAH, I KEEP CHANGING MY MIND. BUT THE, THE ISSUE, UM, THE ONLY CONCERN THAT I HAD WAS TARRYTOWN AND HASTINGS ARE OPTING IN. WHITE PLAINS IS IN, YONKERS IS IN. SO IF WE SAY WE'RE OPTING, YOU KNOW, OUT AND EVERYBODY ELSE IS DOING IT, AND THEN WE'RE NOT GETTING THE REVENUE, IS THAT, SHOULD THAT BE A FACTOR? OR DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD JUST SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, THERE'S PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUES RIGHT NOW, LET'S WAIT UNTIL THE STATE REGULATES, LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS. AND THEN WE COULD ALWAYS, A YEAR FROM NOW OR WHENEVER, UM, THERE ARE MAKE MORE REASONABLE DECISION, THERE ARE CERTAINLY PUBLIC SAFETY CONCERNS. BUT FROM WHAT I HEARD TONIGHT, I DON'T THINK THAT, UH, YOU CAN OPT OUT OF THE DISPENSARY. BUT YOU CAN, WE COULD, WE WE COULD OPT OUT OF BOTH. OKAY. WELL, WE, WE COULD, THE, THE, THE POINT I WAS MAKING IS THAT WE COULD OPT OUT OF DISPENSARY, WE COULD OPT OUT OF BOTH, BUT IN THE, IN THE DISCUSSION THAT WAS BEING MADE AS TO PEOPLE GETTING IN THEIR CAR HIGH, THAT WOULD COME FROM THE LOUNGES. I DON'T SUPPORT THE LOUNGES. UNDERSTOOD. THE VILLAGES DON'T SUPPORT THE LOUNGES EITHER. UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT WHITE PLAINS IS DOING. NO. WHITE PLAIN, BUT I'M JUST, I'M, I JUST WANNA UNDERSTAND, GET A SENSE JUST FROM, IF WE JUST WANNA FOCUS ON PUBLIC SAFETY, YOU KNOW, WOULD YOU PREFER THAT WE OPT THAT WE TAKE OUR TIME AND, AND OPT OUT? BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA RISK PUBLIC SAFETY. SO IF IF THERE'S A PUB, THERE'S A PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUE, THEN MY FAILING IS WE HAVE NOTHING TO DON'T. I MEAN, WE COULD LOSE SOME REVENUE, BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, UH, WE'RE PROTECTING PEOPLE'S SAFETY. YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW THAT, THAT, THAT'S MY MAJOR CONCERN. WOULD, I'M NOT GONNA DO ANYTHING THAT'S GOING TO POSSIBLY COST A LIFE. WOULD YOU WANT, WOULD YOU WANT TO CONSULT WITH THE POLICE CHIEFS AND THE, AND THE YES. MUNICIPALITIES SEE SEVERAL OPINION PAGES, SEE WHAT THEIR REASONING WAS, RIGHT? THE, YOU KNOW, POLICE CHIEF ASSOCIATIONS ARE STRONGLY AGAINST IT. UM, NO DOUBT. UM, BUT I THINK THE, THE FACT THAT YOU CAN CONSUME AND POTENTIALLY GET BEHIND THE WHEEL OF A MOTOR VEHICLE IS CERTAINLY A DANGEROUS ASPECT OF IT TO BE CONSIDERED. WELL, THAT, THAT, THAT DEALS WITH THE LOUNGES, THE DISPENSARIES. YOU CAN'T SMOKE IT THERE. SO WE GOT A PUBLIC HEARING SONOGRAPHERS TRYING TO TAKE EVERYBODY'S COMMENTS, BUT WE'RE TALKING OVER EACH OTHER. SO WE HAVE THAT HAVE ONE COMMENT ONLY BECAUSE PAUL TALKS OVER ME. I JUST HAD ONE OTHER QUESTION THAT, YOU KNOW, CAME UP. UM, IF WE ALLOW DISPENSARIES AND DECIDE TO ALLOW IT, IT'S ALSO A, IT'S MORE REGULATED IF PEOPLE ARE JUST BUYING IT ON THE STREETS, YOU KNOW, IF STUDENTS ARE BUYING IT ON THE STREETS AND IT'S NOT REGULATED, ARE THERE ALSO HEALTH AND SAFETY ISSUES WHERE PEOPLE COULD BE GETTING, UH, SOMETHING THAT'S NOT AS, YOU KNOW, AS SAFE AS A REGULATED COUNT? OF COURSE, THERE'S CONCERNS ON BOTH SIDES OF THE ISSUE. IS THAT LIKE A LEGITIMATE CONCERN? I THINK IT'S A LEGITIMATE CONCERN, YEAH, BECAUSE I, I MEAN, I'M GONNA BE, I BASICALLY WILL, WOULD BASE MY VOTE ON, YOU KNOW, THE, THE PUBLIC, YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC SAFETY. IF THERE'S A RISK THAT OUR VOTE COULD BASICALLY COST SOMEBODY A LIFE, IT'S NOT, TO ME, IT'S NOT WORTH IT. OKAY. SO, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE PEOPLE, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO WANNA SPEAK. DID YOU WANT TO HEAR FROM THEM AND, 'CAUSE IT'S A PUBLIC HEARING. I SEE IT A COUPLE OF HANDS. BISHOP, BISHOP PRESTON RAISED HIS HAND AND THEN . OKAY. DO WE HAVE ANYBODY WHO WANTS TO SPEAK REMOTELY AS WELL OR? WE HAVE HAVE TWO SPEAKERS REMOTE. YES. HERE WE GO. I WANT MY SECOND FIVE MINUTES. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. OH, WELL, GOOD NIGHT. UH, GOOD TO MEET YOU CHIEF FOR, FOR MY FIRST TIME, UH, SEEING THE CHIEF AND, UH, WELCOME HIM TO THE CATA TOWN OF GREENBURG. UM, I, I WAS GOING TO BE QUIET TONIGHT. I JUST WANTED TO BE AN OBSERVER. BUT THE, THE QUESTION OF, OF SUBSTANCE ABUSE OR LEGALIZATION OF MARIJUANA, UH, THE ACTIVE INGREDIENT OF TETRIC HYPER CANNABINOIDS, UH, I THINK IT'S, UM, IT, IT DEMANDS A VERY CAUTIOUS APPROACH. UM, I WORKED FOR THE STATE OF VIRGINIA UNDER GOVERNOR. WE WILDER FOR [02:45:01] 12 YEARS AS A CERTIFIED SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELOR. AND, AND DURING THAT TIME, I WAS ELECTED BY, APPOINTED BY THE GOVERNOR TO HELP WRITE THE POLICY AND PROCEDURE FOR CRIMINAL JUSTICE, WHICH INCLUDED, UH, INMATES, PROBATION AND PAROLE, PEOPLE THAT WOULD RECEIVE SUBSTANCE ABUSE TRAINING, SUBSTANCE ABUSE EDUCATION, AND SUBSTANCE ABUSE TREATMENT. EVER SINCE, UH, T H C HAS BEEN INHALED, IT HAS BEEN A GATEWAY DRUG TO OTHER HARDER DRUGS. HIS, IT'S HISTORIC THAT THE FACTS WEIGHED THAT OUT. IN OTHER WORDS, IT OPENS THE DOOR. THE REASON IT OPENS THE DOOR IS BECAUSE ONCE YOU HAVE, UH, THE, THE DISEASE CALLED ADDICTION, THAT ADDICTION NEVER GOES AWAY. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU, YOU PROBABLY CAN RELATE TO THIS. IF SOMEONE IS A ADVENT OR SMOKE ONE PACK OF CIGARETTES A DAY, THEY BECOME ADDICTED TO NICOTINE. THEY CAN QUIT NICOTINE, QUIT THE QUIT SMOKING. AND IF THEY START BACK SMOKING, WHAT WILL HAPPEN IS THEY WILL GO BACK TO SMOKING AS IF THEY NEVER STOPPED AT, PROBABLY WITHIN A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME, THERE'LL BE TWO PACKS A DAY. THAT'S WHAT ADDICTION DOES. TETRA HYDRO CANNABINOIDS DOES IT AT A MUCH MORE RAMPANT PACE. THERE IS OVER 350 CHEMICALS THAT MAKE UP THE EMBODIMENT OF TETRA HYDRO CANNABINOIDS. ONCE PUT FIRE IS PUT TO IT, IT EXPLODES INTO, WE DON'T KNOW HOW MANY CHEMICALS. IT'S LIKE AN EXPLOSION. AND THAT'S WHY I MAKE IT SO DANGEROUS. BUT THE, THE SHORT TERM EFFECTS OF IT IS THAT ONCE YOU GET ADDICTED, THAT ADDICTION HAS TO BE FED. HOW DO YOU FEED ADDICTION BY INCREASING, WHAT DO YOU INCREASE? TETRA OIDS DON'T DO IT ANY LONGER, SO YOU MOVE TO SOMETHING STRONGER. COCAINE, FOR INSTANCE, OR SOME OF THE OTHER ILLICIT DRUGS. SO I THINK I, I THINK THE BOARD NEED TO REALLY CONSIDER THIS AND APPROACH IT VERY CAREFULLY. IT'S, AND, UM, WHEN MY, IN, IN MY, UH, TIME OF BEING A SUBSTANCE ABUSE COUNSELOR, OVER 80%, AN AVERAGE OF OVER 80% OF PEOPLE THAT WERE INTRODUCED TO T H C TETRA HYPER CANNABINOIDS, OVER 80% GRADUATED TO A STRONGER DRUG. THAT'S PRETTY HIGH, HIGH STATISTICS. DO WE WANT THAT? AND ONE AND ONE JOINT OF MARIJUANA SMOKED HAS THE SAME EFFECT AS DRINKING TWO DRINKS OF ALCOHOL AS FAR AS BEING IMPAIRED. NOW, THE IMPER IMPER AND THE, THE DIFFERENCE IN THE IMPAIRMENT IS, IS IS QUITE OBVIOUS BECAUSE A DRUNK WILL GET LOUD, IS INHIBITIONS ARE REMOVED. THOSE KIND OF THINGS THAT TAKE PLACE. TETRA HYBRID CANNABINOID, HE GETS SLOW DRAG AROUND. I HAD ONE, ONE OF MY CLIENTS DROVE FOR, HE THOUGHT HE HAD DRIVEN THREE HOURS, HE'D ONLY DRIVEN 20 MILES, BECAUSE THAT'S THE KIND OF EFFECT IT HAS WITH THE TRAFFIC THAT WE HAVE ON OUR ROADS. DO WE WANT THOSE KIND OF PEOPLE DRIVING AFTER THEY GO TO A LOUNGE OR AFTER THEY GO TO A DISPENSARY, SIT IN THAT CAR IN A PARKING LOT? I THINK THE BOARD NEED TO REALLY CONSIDER OPTING OUT OF BOTH OF THESE. ANOTHER THING IS THE STATE HASN'T, UH, ANNOUNCED THE REGULATIONS. YOU KNOW, I DON'T, YOU KNOW, I BELIEVE SO IF WE OPT OUT, WE COULD ANALYZE THE REGULATIONS AND THEN AFTER THE REGULATIONS ARE POSTED AND WE HAD A CHANCE TO, YOU KNOW, ANALYZE IT, WE ALWAYS HAVE THE ABILITY OF OPTING IN. IF WE DON'T OPT OUT, THEN WE DON'T HAVE THE CHOICE OF CHANGING OUR MIND. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S ANOTHER, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER FACTOR. YOU KNOW, IT MAY NOT BE A PERMANENT OPT OUT, BUT IT'S OBVIOUSLY, UM, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW SOMETHING. I MEAN, I I'M REALLY GLAD WE HAD THIS PUBLIC HEARING BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I I, I'VE, YOU KNOW, I, YOU KNOW, I'M REALLY REFLECTING ON THE COMMENTS THAT, THAT PEOPLE ARE, ARE, YOU KNOW, ARE MAKING, YOU HAVE A FEW MORE COMMENTS FROM PEOPLE I THINK, RIGHT? , I FEEL LIKE I'M THE ONLY PERSON WHO'S EVER SMOKED POT [02:50:01] . AND DESPITE HAVING DONE IT IN MY YOUTH, I DIDN'T GO ON TO OTHER DRUGS. I'M NOT SMOKING POT. NOW REFERENCED THOUGHT THAT YOU MENTIONED VIRGINIA, ONE OF THE LEADING TOBACCO GROWING STATES AS AS YOUR REFERENCE. BUT AS I COUNTER BEFORE, EVERYONE WHO'S TAKEN ANY DRUGS, NO DOUBT HAS TAKEN MILK EARLIER IN THEIR LIVES TOO. BUT THE REALITY IS, AND I HAVE TO ASK MR. FINER, SHE TRAINED AS A LAWYER, DID YOU EVER THINK THAT YOU MIGHT BE ASKING LEADING QUESTIONS OF THE POLICE CHIEF? I MEAN, UH, ALRIGHT. WHEN THE POLICE PULL OVER A CAR, THEY DO IT PRESUMABLY BECAUSE THEY CAN'T TELL FROM THEIR OWN POLICE CAR WHETHER THE PERSON WHO WAS DRIVING ERRATICALLY WAS DRINKING ALCOHOL OR SMOKING POT OR HAS A MEDICAL CONDITION. IT'S ONLY WHEN THEY GO OVER TO THE POLICE TO THE CAR. THE QUESTION THEN BECOMES TO TAKE THAT AS VALID EVIDENCE OF SOMETHING. WHAT PERCENTAGE OF POLICE STOPS AT VEHICLES ENDS UP WITH A CONCLUSION THAT THE DRIVER WAS INTOXICATED. THEY WON'T KNOW IF IT WAS POT OR OTHER PO OTHER CAUSES, BUT IS THERE A REASON TO BELIEVE THAT POLICE DANGEROUS DRIVING FATALITIES, ACCIDENTS AND ALL THAT ARE THE RESULT OF POT? I WOULD LIKE TO SEE A STATISTIC THAT SAYS WHEN THE POLICE PULL OVER, CAUSE WHAT PERCENTAGE OF THE TIMES DID IT TURN OUT THAT IT'S ALCOHOL WHICH CAUSED THE ERRATIC DRIVING, WHICH CAUSED THEM TO STOP THE CAR IN THE FIRST PLACE? THAT INFORMATION HAS NOT BEEN APPLIED. YOU GO BACK AND FORTH ACKNOWLEDGING THE FACT THAT IT'S GOING TO BE SOLD, IT'S GOING TO BE CONSUMED. I DON'T CARE ABOUT THE TAX ANGLE, BUT THE FACT IS IT'S GOING TO BE SOLD NEARBY. PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN GREENBURG ARE GOING TO BUY IT ELSEWHERE AND THEN THEY'RE GONNA COME BACK BECAUSE THEY LIVE IN GREENBURG, WHETHER YOU VOTE FOR OR AGAINST IT. THE BOTTOM LINE IS POT IS STILL GOING TO BE USED WITHIN GREENBERG. SO THE QUESTION IS, WHY ARE YOU DENYING IT? WHICH SEEMS TO BE THE PRESUMED ATTITUDE THAT I GET FROM YOUR QUESTIONING, MR. FINER, THAT YOU ARE NOT GOING TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF, AND IF YOU'VE PERMITTED ALL THE OTHER DRUGS TO BE USED, IF YOU'VE PERMITTED ALCOHOL TO BE USED, IF YOU'VE PERMITTED TOBACCO TO BE USED, WHAT'S THIS BIG LINE? YOU'RE DRAWING THE SAND HERE OVER POT. MOST PEOPLE WHO USED IT FIND IT AS A VERY CALMING INFLUENCE, A STATE OF MIND WHICH PEOPLE PREFER TO BE IN. AND PEOPLE WHO ARE USING POT MOSTLY ARE NOT SAYING, OKAY, GIMME A JOINT SO I CAN GO GET IN MY CAR AND DRIVE SOMEPLACE. TWO DRINKS. THAT'S YOUR THRESHOLD. WHO HAS TWO DRINKS WHEN THEY GO OUT DRINKING? SO MAKING THE EQUIVALENT OF TWO DRINKS IS EQUAL TO ONE JOINT. I FIND IT VERY RARE FOR MY EXPERIENCE TO SEE THAT ANYONE CONSUMES AN ENTIRE JOINT. BUT I'VE SEEN PEOPLE DRINK TWO DRINKS AND MORE. SO I THINK THE GREATER FEAR IS REALLY THAT YOU'RE EXPRESSING IS NOT ABOUT POT, IT'S ABOUT ALCOHOL. FINALLY, THERE IS NO STATISTICS WHICH SAY THAT A PERSON WHO IS USING ANYTHING IS USING IT EXCLUSIVELY OR EVEN EXCLUSIVELY AT THE SAME MOMENT IN TIME. COCKTAILS ARE NOT ONLY SERVED IN BARS, BUT DRUG USERS FIND WAYS OF USING ALL KINDS OF DRUGS. BUT THE KEY THING IS FOR YOU REALLY TO CONSIDER IS THE BOTTOM LINE IS POT'S PRESENCE IS GOING TO BE IN GREENBURG. AND WHETHER YOU'RE GONNA FORECLOSE THE RIGHT OF PEOPLE TO BE PURCHASING IT AND [02:55:01] USING IT. CAN WE USE IT IN TOWN PARKS? THAT'S THE QUESTION. I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE SPEAKERS. RIGHT? AND YOU CAN'T USE IT IN TOWN PARKS BECAUSE THE TOWN IS A LOCAL LAW THAT PROHIBITS SMOKING IN PARKSVILLE. I THINK WE HAVE TWO REMOTE, WE TWO, TWO SPEAKERS ONLINE. OKAY. OKAY. UH, CLIFF ABRAMS, WE'LL BE JOINING IN A MOMENT. AND THEN MICHELLE BROWN, WE WILL CALL ON YOU NEXT. AND CLIFF, YOU CAN UNMUTE YOUR MIC. UM, I JUST DID, THANK YOU. UM, WHAT I'M TRYING TO FIND OUT IS THAT ALCOHOL PEOPLE DRINK ALCOHOL IN THE MORNING, IN THE AFTERNOON. I DO NOTHING. BUT I'M TALKING ABOUT, I KNOW THAT PEOPLE DRINKS A LOT AND HOW CAME UP WITH SOMETHING GOOD WHEN THE POLICE STOPPED SOMEBODY OR THEY STOPPING THEM FOR IMPAIRMENT OF A SUBSTANCE OR ALCOHOL. OF COURSE, MOST PEOPLE GET DWIS AND PEOPLE TAKE MORE THAN ONE OR TWO DRINK. 'CAUSE USUALLY SOMEBODY DRINKING, THEY DRINKING IT GETS SMASHED. SO I'M WONDERING WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? BECAUSE MOSTLY, AS HAL SAID, WHEN PEOPLE SMOKE A MARIJUANA STICK, THEY DOING IT TO MELLOW OUT OR CAN IT BE THAT THE STIGMA THAT PEOPLE WHO SMOKE WEEDED IS BLACK? AND THAT'S WHY PEOPLE GET NERVOUS OF LEGALIZE IT. BECAUSE I KNOW THAT Y'ALL HAVE BARS AND LIKE HAL SAID, THAT WHETHER Y'ALL OPT IN OR OUT, PEOPLE FROM GREENBURG GOING TO GO, THEY GOTTA GO RIGHT NEXT DOOR TO WHITE PLAINS OR RIGHT OVER TO NEW ROCHELLE OR . THEY'RE GOING TO GET WHAT THEY WANT. AND SO WHAT Y'ALL HAVE TO REALLY DECIDE IS THE BENEFIT. AND PLUS IF IT'S LEGAL, PEOPLE KNOW WHAT THEY GETTING BECAUSE PEOPLE GONNA SMOKE IT, WHETHER IT'S LEGAL OR ILLEGAL, HOWEVER THEY CAN GET. AND I THINK THAT YOU WOULD RATHER FOR SOMEBODY TO KNOW WHAT THEY SMOKING THAN SOMEBODY THAT'S GETTING STUFF THAT THEY DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY GETTING. AND IF THE TOWN CAN GET TAXED AND THEY CAN HELP OUT TO DO SOCIAL PROGRAMS FOR YOUTH AND MAKE MORE MONEY THAT WAY. I SAY BECAUSE PEOPLE WANT TO GET IT NO MATTER WHAT. THAT'S ALL I WANT TO SAY. I BEFORE I GO, LIKE THE YOUNG, THE WOMAN THAT GOT UP BEFORE AND WAS TALKING ABOUT, SHE WAS DISGUSTED ABOUT HOW PEOPLE REACT TO THE BOARD. WELL, IF THE BALL WASN'T SO RUDE, PEOPLE WOULDN'T REACT THE WAY THEY ACT TO THE BOARD. AND I COULD SEE THAT SHE MUST BE A PRIVILEGED WOMAN FOR, TO EVEN MAKE A STATEMENT LIKE THAT. THANK YOU. OKAY, LASTLY, TWO MORE, TWO MORE SPEAKERS. UH, MICHELLE BROWN. I'M GONNA, OKAY, MS. LIPSON, YOU WANNA SPEAK A SECOND TIME EVEN THOUGH IT'S 1130? OKAY, MS. BROWN, ARE WE DOING CHECK AROUND? HI, CAN YOU HEAR ME? IT'S MICHELLE BROWN. YES. OH, PERFECT. UM, I UNDERSTAND THE CONCERN, UM, WITH DRIVING AND HAVING MARIJUANA READILY AVAILABLE TO PEOPLE THAT YOU THINK SHOULDN'T HAVE IT. BUT YOU KNOW, THIS HAS BEEN AROUND FOR AT LEAST 25 MILLION YEARS, THE CLOCK AND, UM, THE CLOCK, THE CLOCK, IT'S LEGAL. IT IS WHAT IT IS. THERE'S A WAY TO SAY, TO ASK FROM THE CLOCK ON WHAT YOU HAVE TO REALLY CONCERN YOURSELF DOWN THERE THREE TIMES. I UNDERSTAND. CAN, CAN, I'M SORRY. UH, I I AM I AM SORRY, MICHELLE. I I JUST, WHEN YOU STARTED TALKING, UM, UH, A VOICE CAME FROM DOWN THE DAY OF SAYING TURN THE CLOCK ON. AND I JUST SAID THAT THERE IS A WAY OF ASKING PEOPLE POLITELY. AND SO I DIDN'T MEAN TO INTERRUPT YOU, BUT I'M GOING TO THAT'S FINE. TURN THE CLOCK ON. OKAY. BUT FRANCIS, THIS IS ALWAYS DISRESPECTFUL. IT WASN'T YOU, IT WASN'T PROCESS, IT WASN'T, AH, I'LL LET YOU, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I'LL ACCEPT YOUR APOLOGY AGAIN, FRANCIS. IT WASN'T, LET'S, LET'S JUST MOVE WITH THIS, WITH THIS, [03:00:01] BECAUSE ALREADY RESPECTFULLY, 1130, EXCUSE ME. EXCUSE ME. YOU CAN START MY TIMER. I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT MARIJUANA AND I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT RESPECT RESPECTFULLY, AS A GENTLEMAN, AS A MAN, YOU SHOULD BE MORE RESPECTFUL IN THE WAY YOU SPEAK TO, UM, YOUR COLLEAGUES. SHE'S YOUR COLLEAGUE, WHETHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT. THAT'S JUST WHAT IT IS. AND IT'S VERY CLEAR, NOT JUST BY MY EYES, BUT BY MANY EYES, UNHAND HOW YOU SPEAK TO HER AND YOU, YOU RELATE TO HER. IT, IT'S, IT'S ANNOYING, IT'S FRUSTRATING, IT'S DISRESPECTFUL. AND I DON'T KNOW HOW TO HELP YOU SEE THAT OTHER THAN YOU WATCHING THE TAPE BACK AND REALLY BEING OPEN TO SEEING WHAT YOU SEE. AS I WAS GOING TO SAY ABOUT MARIJUANA, IT IS LEGAL AND IT'S BEEN AROUND FOR MILLIONS OF YEARS, AND UNFORTUNATELY PEOPLE HAVE BEEN SMOKING IT BEFORE IT BECAME LEGALIZED IN NEW YORK. AND YOU CAN SMOKE AND DRIVING WITH IT. AND I THINK THAT, THAT IT DOES HAVE HEALTH BENEFITS AND IT IS A RESOURCE FOR PEOPLE IN YOUR COMMUNITY TO, TO BENEFIT IN A WAY THAT IT IS CONTROLLED IN THE SENSE THAT THEY DO KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GETTING. BECAUSE MANY PEOPLE SMOKE IT BECAUSE THEY MAY BE AS, UM, MR. PRESTON SAID IN SOME FORM OF ADDICTION, BUT MANY PEOPLE SMOKE IT AS A FORM OF, OF A HEALTH BENEFIT AS WELL. AND, UM, AND THERE IS NO REAL NUMBERS ON WHETHER OR NOT DRIVING WHILE SMOKING WEEDED. AND, AND AGAIN, MOST PEOPLE THAT SMOKE WEED AREN'T LIKE, LET ME SMOKE WEEDED, GET BEHIND A CAR AND LET ME DRIVE. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE THAT MAKE BAD DECISIONS AREN'T ONLY THE PEOPLE THAT SMOKE MARIJUANA. A BAD DECISION IS A BAD DECISION. YOU KNOW, DRINKING ON OPIOID, OPIOIDS, THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT PEOPLE DO AND MAKE BAD DECISIONS BY GETTING BEHIND THE WHEEL. AND PEOPLE THAT SMOKE MARIJUANA ARE NOT THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT DO THAT. SO I, I HOPE YOU CONSIDER THE HEALTH BENEFITS FOR PEOPLE IN YOUR COMMUNITY BECAUSE PEOPLE IN YOUR COMMUNITY SHOULD BE PROTECTED AND BE ABLE TO HAVE IT AS A RESOURCE FOR THEM AND NOT HAVE TO TRAVEL DISTANCES. AND, AND, AND AS LOUISE HAS SAID BEFORE, GIVE THEIR MONEY TO ANOTHER TOWN AND, AND OF BEING ABLE TO ADD MORE VALUE TO YOURS. THANK YOU. OKAY. WE HAVE ONE MORE SPEAKER. UH, MS. SWAN. OKAY, MS. SWAN, IF YOU CAN UNMUTE YOUR MIC, WE'RE ALL SET FOR YOU TO SPEAK. NONE OF THEM HAVE THE, NONE OF THEM HAVE THEIR CAMERA ON. NONE OF THEM HAVE THEIR CAMERA ON MS. SWAN, IF YOU CAN HEAR, PLEASE UNMUTE YOUR MIC AND SPEAK. WHY DON'T WE SEE THE SPEAKER'S FACES LIKE WE DID? THEY DON'T HAVE THEIR CAMERAS ON THE WATER. NONE OF THEM HAVE THEIR CAMERAS ON. OKAY, MS. SWAN, ARE YOU SET TO SPEAK NOW? I SEE YOUR MIC'S UNMUTED. IF NOT, IF NOT, THEN LET'S, UH, ALL RIGHT. CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND AND LEAVE THE RECORD UP UNTIL FRIDAY. FIVE O'CLOCK. WELL, DOREEN, ARE WE HAVING A SECOND ROUND OR ARE WE NOT A SECOND ROUND? NO, WE CAN'T DO THAT. OKAY. WE'RE NOT HAVING A SECOND ROUND MISS. UH, I THOUGHT THAT WAS WHATEV. WHATEVER YOU WHATEVER YOU, WHATEVER SHOULD'VE BEEN WAITING ALL NIGHT. THAT'S WAITING LONG ENOUGH. I KNOW TO PUT MY 2 CENTS BACK IN. I CAN'T, I IT'S THE PLEASURE TO, BOY. I DO HAVE, I DO, I'LL DO TWO MINUTES AS SOON AS YOU DO IT. EVERYBODY ELSE HAS TO HAVE A SECOND ROUND. COULD YOU SUBMIT YOUR, YOUR NOTES TO US OR CAN I START? GO AHEAD, YOUR HONOR. THANK YOU. I THINK THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO ARE MIXING UP RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA WITH MEDICINAL MARIJUANA. THIS IS NOT ABOUT MEDICINAL MARIJUANA FOR HEALTH REASONS. THIS IS RECREATIONAL MARIJUANA. AND I THINK UNTIL WE HAVE RULES AND REGULATIONS IN PLACE, THIS REMINDS ME OF THE BEST, THE BATTERY ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEM THAT WE WENT THROUGH FOR MONTHS WITH A COMPANY [03:05:01] WHO REALLY DID NOT REALLY WANNA GET INVOLVED WITH OUR RULES. WE DIDN'T HAVE ANY. AS A RESULT, WE SPENT MONTHS GOING OVER EVERYTHING WE COULD. AND IT WASN'T UNTIL A COMMITTEE WAS FORMED THAT THEY FOUND OUT ABOUT ALL THE, THE TERRIBLE THINGS WITH THESE BATTERIES. WE MUST HAVE RULES AND REGULATIONS IN PLACE. HOW BIG ARE WE GOING TO ALLOW THIS DISPENSARY TO BE? WHERE WILL THEY BE PUT? IT SAYS COMMERCIAL. WE HAVE A LOT OF COMMERCIAL AREAS AND ANYONE, AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, IF YOU WANT IT IN YOUR COMMERCIAL, IF YOU WANT IT, THEN YOU SHOULD BE HAVE IT IN YOUR AREA. SO IF YOU, YOU LIVE IN A CERTAIN PART OF TOWN, BE PREPARED. THAT'S WHERE IT SHOULD BE. OTHERS DON'T WANT IT. IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE THE RULES AND REGULATIONS SET UP BEFORE WE MAKE TO GO AHEAD. MONEY SHOULD NOT BE THE ISSUE. WE CAN ALWAYS COME BACK IN AS FAR AS, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND AND DO THIS, WE KNOW THAT ODDLY OPTED OUT. I UNDERSTAND ELMSFORD OPTED OUT. WELL, IF THEY OPTED OUT, MAYBE WE SHOULD OPT OUT TOO. THERE'S NO RUSH TO DO THIS. THANK YOU. OKAY, ONE MORE REQUEST ONLINE FOR A SECOND ROUND. AND, UH, IT'S MICHELLE. NO, WE'RE NOT DOING A SECOND. I JUST LET DOREEN DO IT. I I I I GET UNDER I UNDERSTAND. I, OKAY, SO MICHELLE WILL BE ARRIVING. WE'RE GONNA BE HERE. YOU'LL ALLOWED THE SECOND ROUND, RIGHT? OKAY. MICHELLE BROWN IS ON NOW. HI. DOES THAT, DOES COULD I JUST ASK, COULD I JUST ASK IF ANYONE HAS ANYTHING DIFFERENT TO ADD? WE, YOU KNOW, WE UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, THAT, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE MIGHT BE DRIVING IN CARS. UH, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS TO, IF THERE'S ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT SOMEBODY COULD PROVIDE THAT WOULD BE REALLY HELPFUL. FRANKLY, WHAT HELPED ME A LOT WAS WHEN SOMEBODY GOT UP AND STARTED TALKING ABOUT HOW THE STREET MARIJUANA IS LACED WITH FENTANYL BECAUSE IT GIVES YOU A QUICK, QUICK SPIKE SO YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE SOMEBODY GAVE YOU A GARBAGE MARIJUANA. THAT WOULD NOT HAPPEN IN A DISPENSARY. UM, THAT'S A POINT TO TO CONSIDER AS TO WHETHER OR NOT IT'S, IF, IF WE DON'T DO THIS, DOES IT MEAN THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY'LL BE GOING TO THE STREET AND GETTING IT AND IT'S, IT MAY NOT, IT MAY HAVE CONTAMINANTS, BUT YOU KNOW, THOSE ARE THE KIND OF THINGS THAT IT'S GOOD TO HEAR ONCE YOU OPT OUT. ARE YOU ABLE TO OPT THAT BACK IN? BECAUSE THE LAST TIME I HEARD THAT YOU GUYS WEREN'T SURE ABOUT THAT. IF YOU FINISH YOUR COMMENTS, I'LL ANSWER. THAT WAS ONE THING. THE NEXT THING, YOUR COMMENT, NONE OF THEM HAVE THEIR CAMERAS ON. WHO ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? WHO'S THEM? YOU. WELL SAY MY NAME. THEY DIDN'T SAY YOUR NAME. I DIDN'T WANNA PUT YOUR NAME OUT THERE. NO, YOU, LET'S JUST HAVE, LET'S JUST DISCUSS THE HEARING ON, YOU KNOW, WE'RE WASTING TIME. HOLD ON A SECOND. BE DISRESPECT. WHAT'S YOUR OPINION? NO, IT'S NOT MY OPINION AT ALL. I AM SICK OF THE WAY YOU SPEAK ABOUT US WHEN WE SHOW UP. IT'S 1140. JUST TELL THIS IS A HEARING. WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT, IT'S 1140 FOR ME TOO. GUESS WHAT? IT'S NOT 1140 FOR ME. IT'S 5:40 AM FOR ME. PAUL, DO YOU HAVE COMMENTS ABOUT MARIJUANA? I GET PAID. I DON'T, I DON'T GET PAID TO DO THIS. DO YOU HAVE COMMENTS ABOUT MARIJUANA? I DO. YES I DO. THE COMMENT YOU MADE ABOUT SOMEONE ATTEMPTING TO GET INTO THE MEETING ABOUT MARIJUANA, YOU SAID THAT, THAT NONE OF THEM HAVE THEIR CAMERAS ON AND YOU'RE REFERRING TO WHO IS THEM BECAUSE IT'S ONLY ME, CLIFF AND STEPHANIE THAT DON'T HAVE OUR CAMERAS ON. IT'S NOT TRUE. THAT PART RIGHT THERE. NO, YOU GOTTA APOLOGIZE. YOU GOTTA STOP IT FRANCIS. YOU MAKE RACIAL COMMENTS AND CO AND ALL THE TIME, ALL THE TIME. YOU CAN'T HELP IT. YOU JUST DO IT. IT FLIES OFF YOUR TONGUE AND YOU DO IT. LET'S, LET'S JUST FOCUS ON THE ISSUE, RIGHT? NO, I'M FOCUSING ON WHAT I'M FOCUSING ON. I GOT THREE MANY. I'VE WAITING. DO YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT CANNABIS? I HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY ABOUT CANNABIS. OKAY. I HAVE A LOT TO SAY ABOUT IT. OKAY, GO AHEAD. THAT, THAT WOMAN WHO SAID WHO, IF WE, WHOEVER WANTS IT IN THEIR COMMUNITY OR THEIR TOWN, THEY SHOULD HAVE, THEY SHOULD HAVE IT THERE. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? YOU KNOW, THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. YOU GUYS ARE GONNA DO WHAT YOU WANNA DO. BUT REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE OTHER PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN YOUR COMMUNITY AND THEN, AND, AND, AND IS IS DISRESPECTFUL AND IT'S, [03:10:01] IT'S HORRIBLE. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? YOU WANT IT IN YOUR COMMUNITY CAN HAVE IT THERE. NONE OF THEM HAVE THEIR CAMERA ON YOU. THINK ABOUT THAT. WE HAVE ONE MORE SPEAKER. I SEE A HAND UP. I, I THINK I I CLIFF. I THINK THIS IS WOULD BE HIS SECOND TIME TO SPEAK. OKAY CLIFF. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. YOU KNOW THEM FIRST OF ALL, I DON'T SEE NOWHERE. I CAN PICK MY CAMERA JUST AIN'T LIKE WHEN WE HAVE OUR ZOOM MEETING, WE JUST HERE IT JUST LET ME IN AND SHOWED ME MY MUTE BUTTON. THERE'S NOWHERE WHERE TO SAY TO PICK CAMERA ON OR OFF. SO THIS, THIS IS WHY WE DON'T HAVE NO FACIAL RECOGNITION RIGHT NOW AND THEREFORE THE WOMAN TO SAY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED WHERE DISCONNECTED. I DID. MS. SWAN, I KNOW YOU HAD YOUR HAND UP. UH, DID YOU FIGURE OUT YOUR TECHNICAL ISSUE YET OR ARE YOU STILL HAVING ISSUES? I THINK THERE'S STILL ISSUES THERE. WE STILL HAVE A A WHOLE MEETING. I'M BACK. CLIFF, CLIFF IS BACK. YEAH, CLIFF IS BACK. SO, SO HOW DID THAT WORK? BECAUSE SHE'S SAYING YOU WEREN'T IN YOUR COMMUNITY AND I DID SAY IS IT A RACIAL SAYING THAT YOU THINK IN A BLACK COMMUNITY OR BLACKS GONNA BE MORE SMOKING IT? 'CAUSE I WANNA KNOW WHAT THAT MEAN BY YOU COULD HAVE IT IN YOUR COMMUNITY OR WHEN YOU ARE DO IT, YOU DECIDE TO OPT IN WHAT COMMUNITY OF GREENBURG IS GOING TO BE IN BECAUSE YOU KNOW THAT STATEMENT THEY MAKE MY ASS WENT UP. LIKE YOU COULD HAVE IT IN YOUR COMMUNITY. WHAT DOES SHE MEAN BY THAT? AND SECOND IS THAT FRANCIS, YOU RIGHT, IF SOMEBODY GET IN THE STREET, FENTANYL, ANYTHING, THEY CAN GET IT BUT THEY GET IT IN A SPOT THAT Y'ALL ALLOWED TO COME IN HERE. THEY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY GETTING IT LIKE A PACK OF CIGARETTES. IT TELL YOU THE DANGERS THAT'S ON A PACK OF CIGARETTES. AND IS THAT THE CIGARETTE TOBACCO THAT KILL YOU? IT'S THE NICOTINE. THEY COMPARE THE NICOTINE TO A HEROIN. IT'S EASIER FOR A DRUG ADDICT TO GET OFF A HEROIN. THEY GET OFF CIGARETTES. THE ONLY THING ABOUT CIGARETTES IS NOT A MINE MOVE. ALTERNATE CHEMICAL. SO WE NEED TO BE A LITTLE BIT MORE RESPECTFUL BECAUSE I TRY MY BEST TO BE RESPECTFUL EVEN THOUGH THAT WOMAN CLAIMED THAT SHE WOULDN'T BE UP HERE. AND THE REASON WHY PEOPLE RAISE THEIR VOICE A LITTLE BIT MORE BECAUSE WE SEE HOW WELL WE COME ON HOW WE TREATED BY THIS PANEL UP HERE. AND WE SEE THAT WHEN MOND, LEY COMES ON, HOW YOU'LL TREAT THEM, IT SHOWS YOUR IT BE LEAKING OUTTA YOUR POS. AND THAT'S A DISRESPECT. AND EVEN THOUGH WE GOT TWO BLACK COUNCIL PEOPLE UP THERE, IT DON'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE IF THEY AIN'T SPEAKING UP. THEY'RE SUPPORTING US. I'M THROUGH. I HAD LIKE TO CORRECT THE RECORD, IT WASN'T THE TOWN BOARD REGARDING THE PICTURES OF WHAT WE SAW ON THE SCREEN. IT WAS ME. I WAS JUST CURIOUS AND I ASKED THE TOWN BOARD HOW COME WE DON'T SEE THE PICTURES? BECAUSE DURING THE WATER HEARING WE DID SEE PICTURES OF SOMEONE ON ZOOM. I WAS JUST CURIOUS. I DON'T THINK THEY DID ANYTHING WRONG IN THAT RESPECT AND THAT'S WHY I RESPONDED. THEY DON'T HAVE THEIR CAMERAS ON. YES. AND THAT APPARENTLY IS RACIAL. SO YOU'RE OFF THE HOOK ON THAT. BUT LET ME COME BACK AT YOU FRANCIS. SOMETHING ELSE. OKAY, AT THE LAST HEARING ON THIS, I QUESTIONED WHY THERE WERE HEARD MADE FRANCIS, I QUESTIONED WHY ONLY NOW WERE WE INVOLVED IN THIS? AND YOU GAVE A LENGTHY EXPLANATION ABOUT WE WERE LOOKING AT THIS, WE WERE LOOKING AT THAT, WE SPOKE TO THEM, WE PRINT OUT THIS, ALL THIS INFORMATION. BUT THE REALITY IS IF YOU WERE SEEKING THE PUBLIC'S INPUT AND YOU KNEW ABOUT THIS IN [03:15:01] MARCH, WE COULD HAVE BEEN HAVING THESE HEARINGS ALL ALONG WHERE YOU COULD HAVE GOTTEN THE PUBLIC FEEDBACK RATHER THAN DOING UNDER THE PRESSURE OF THE BUDGET AND ALL THE OTHER PRESENTATIONS. MR. FINE, YOU'RE COMPLAINING ABOUT THAT IT'S LATE. GEE GOLLY GEE, IT'S ONLY 20 OF 12. IT'S NOT SUCH A BIG DEAL FOR ONE MEETING TO GO A LITTLE LATER THAN USUAL. IS IT? DOES IT REALLY TROUBLE YOU SO MUCH A MEETING THAT YOU STARTED A HALF HOUR LATE AND THEN YOU ALL LEFT FOR FIVE MINUTE BREAKS THROUGHOUT LIVE WITH IT. THIS HAPPENS. THE PUBLIC, YOU KNOW, SPEAKS OCCASIONALLY. SO FINALLY I HAVE TO RESPOND, EVEN THOUGH THIS WILL PROBABLY HURT SOMEONE, I'M VERY CLOSE TO THE COUNCIL OF GREENBERG CIVIC ASSOCIATION SAYS YOU'RE PROBABLY AWARE OF SOMEONE COMES HERE AND SAYS, I REPRESENT THE COUNCIL OF GREENBERG AND HERE'S WHAT WE DECIDED. BUT REALLY, HOW MANY PEOPLE IS THAT? I MEAN, IT SOUNDS LIKE 50, A HUNDRED PEOPLE ARE BEHIND THEM. IT'S NOT A LARGE NUMBER. SO, YOU KNOW, I'VE ALWAYS WONDERED WHY THEY DO THEIR MINUTES WITHOUT ATTENDANCE. 'CAUSE THEY NEVER REALLY WANNA LET YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ATTENDING THE MEETING. FINALLY, THE IDEA OF SOMEONE COMING TO THIS MICROPHONE AND SAYING, WE WANT THE ABILITY TO CONTROL HOW LARGE THE STORE IS GONNA BE OR THAT YOU HAVE TO BE A RESIDENT IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR PRODUCTS IN. THAT'S A LITTLE FAR FETCHED, ISN'T IT? AND THEN FINALLY, YOU KNOW, IF WE'RE SO WORRIED ABOUT PEOPLE DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF POT, MARIJUANA, WHATEVER YOU WANT TO CALL IT, THE CLOSER THEY ARE TO HOME WOULD BE LESS OF A DRIVING EXPERIENCE. SOMEONE WHO LIVES IN FAIRVIEW, IF I HAVE TO SAY THAT AS A DISTANT POINT OF GREENBURG FROM YONKERS WOULD CERTAINLY HAVE A LONGER RIDE IN THE CAR BY UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE MARIJUANA THEY PURCHASED IN YONKERS THEN IF THEY PURCHASED IT IN THE SHOPPING CENTER ACROSS THE STREET. SO IF THAT'S A REAL CONCERN THAT LET'S SAVE LIVES BY PUTTING 'EM ON THE ROAD FOR A SHORTER DISTANCE. OKAY, I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT WE CLOSE THE HEARING. LEAVE THE RECORD OPEN UNTIL FRIDAY AT FIVE O'CLOCK. OKAY. ON FAVOR, AYE. SECOND. SECOND. AYE. AYE. ANYBODY AYE, UH, WANT TO SPEAK? NO. THEN, UH, [ TB 1 - 12/08/2021 Resolution appointing James Meehan, P.E. as Interim Town Engineer, effective December 13, 2021] THEN WE'LL GO ON TO THE AGENDA RESOLUTION OF POINTING JAMES MAYEN AS IN TERMS TOWN ENGINEER EFFECTIVE DECEMBER 13TH. SECOND. SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE. AYE. APPOINTMENT [ Appointment of Dr. Alfred Fayemi as an Alternate Member to the Conservation Advisory Council (CAC), for a term to expire December 31, 2022] OF DR. ALFRED BAI AS AN ALTERNATE MEMBER TO THE CONSERVATION ADVISORY COUNCIL FOR A TERM TO EXPIRE DECEMBER 31ST. I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND. SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE. AYE. AYE. RESOLUTION [ TB 2 - 12/08/2021 Resolution authorizing the Town Supervisor to enter into a contract with General Code, CMS, LLC to develop a Comprehensive Strategic Plan and Assessment of the Town’s archives and records management process and to make recommendations on how to best utilize current and emerging technology to manage records and workflow, at a cost not to exceed $6,500] AUTHORIZING TOWN SUPERVISOR ATTENTION TO CONTRACT WITH GENERAL CODE. DEVELOP A COMPREHENSIVE STRATEGIC PLAN AND ASSESSMENT OF THE TOWN'S ARCHIVES AND RECORDS MANAGEMENT PROCESS AND TO MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW TO BEST UTILIZE CURRENT AND EMERGING TECHNOLOGY TO MANAGE RECORDS AND WORKFLOW. WORKFLOW AT A COST NOT TO EXCEED $6,500. I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE AYE. AYE. RESOLUTION [ CL 1 - 12/08/2021 Resolution authorizing closing Adams Place, between North and South Road, on Sunday, December 12, 2021 (Rain date: December 18, 2021), from 2:00 PM until 6:00 PM, for the Parkway Gardens Social Action Committee to hold its First Annual Christmas Carol Sing Along] AUTHORIZING STREET? NO, WE'LL GET TO THAT BETWEEN NORTH AND SOUTH ROAD ON SUNDAY, DECEMBER 12TH, UH, FROM 2:00 PM UNTIL 6:00 PM FOR THE PARKWAY GARDEN SOCIAL ACTIONS COMMITTEE TOLD HIS FIRST ANNUAL CHRISTMAS SINGLE ALONG. I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE. AYE. AYE. RESOLUTION [ CL 2 - 12/08/2021 Resolution scheduling a continuation of a Public Hearing for 7:30 PM, Wednesday, January 12, 2022, to consider a request for a modification with respect to a previously approved Site Plan Application of Avalon Green III, LLC, for property located at Town Green Drive (P.O. Elmsford, NY)] SCHEDULING A CONTINUATION OF PUBLIC HEARING FOR 7:30 PM TO CONSIDER A REQUEST FOR MODIFICATION WITH RESPECT AT A PREVIOUSLY APPROVED SITE PLAN APPLICATION OF AVALON GREEN FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT, UM, AT TOWN. UH, GREEN DRIVE. I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND. SECOND ON FAVOR, AYE. AYE. AYE. UM, RESOLUTION [ CD 1 - 12/08/2021 Resolution authorizing an agreement between the Town of Greenburgh and the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT) related to maintenance, repair and energizing of a Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacon (RRFB) in connection with the implementation of a transportation federal-aid project known as the Hillside Avenue Sidewalk Project] AUTHORIZING AN AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AND NEW YORK STATE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION RELATED TO MAINTENANCE, REPAIR AND ENERGIZING THE RECTANGULAR RAPID FLASHING BEACON, UM, IN CONNECTION WITH THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A TRANSPORTATION FEDERAL AID PROJECT KNOWN AS HILLSIDE AVENUE SIDEWALK PROJECT. I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? A AYE AYE. AUTHORIZE [ CO 1 - 12/08/2021 Resolution authorizing the approval of O'Connor Davies LLP as the auditors for fiscal years ended December 31, 2021 and December 31, 2022, at a cost of $89,000 and $91,000, respectively] THE APPROVAL OF O'CONNOR DAVIES AS AUDITORS, UM, FOR FISCAL YEAR UNDER DECEMBER 31ST, 2021. DECEMBER 31ST, 2022. SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? A [ CO 2 - 12/08/2021 Resolution authorizing Fiscal Year 2021 budget transfers] ARIS, UH, FISCAL YEAR 2021. BUDGET TRANSFERS. I WOULD LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. AYE. [ PR 1 - 12/08/2021 Resolution authorizing the execution of a $135,597 Grant Agreement between the Town of Greenburgh and the County of Westchester to provide Information and Assistance Services under the Expanded In-home Services for the Elderly Program (EISEP)] EXECUTION OF A3 5 5 97 GRAND AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE TOWN OF GREENBURG AND THE COUNTY BUDGET TO PROVIDE INFORMATION AND SYSTEMS SERVICES [03:20:01] UNDER THE EXPANDED IN-HOME SERVICES FOR THE ELDERLY PROGRAM. E I S C P. I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND. SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE. AYE. AYE. [ PR 2 - 12/08/2021 Resolution authorizing the Town of Greenburgh's Department of Parks and Recreation to accept a $150 donation for the Senior Citizen Program from the Kiwanis Club of Hartsdale] RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING TOWN OF GREENBURG, DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION TO ACCEPT $150 DONATION FOR SENIOR CITIZEN PROGRAM FROM THE QANTAS CLUB OF HARTSDALE. I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE. AYE. UH, ACCEPTING [ PH 1 - 12/08/2021 Resolution accepting a grant in the amount of $1,000 from George and Rachel Gumina, Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors designated for Vax Up Westchester] A GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF 1000 FROM DOLLARS FROM GEORGIAN. RACHEL, GINA, UH, ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS DESIGNATED FOR VAX WESTCHESTER. I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND ON FAVOR. AYE AYE. AYE. [ PH 2 - 12/08/2021 Resolution authorizing an Electronic Grant Disbursement Agreement with Dormitory Authority of the State of New York (DASNY) for improvements to the Police Department Headquarters Facility, including Upgrades to the Women's Lockers Room] RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ELECTRONIC GRANT DISBURSEMENT AGREEMENT WITH DO ALREADY DID YOU SAY? I SAID GOODNIGHT TO THE STENOGRAPHER? UH, UH, UH, UH, JOE RETIRE AUTHORITY WITH THE STATE OF NEW YORK FOR IMPROVEMENTS, UM, UH, TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HEADQUARTERS FACILITY, INCLUDING UPGRADES TO THE WOMAN'S LOCKER ROOM. I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND IN FAVOR. AYE. RESOLUTION [ PO 1 - 12/08/2021 Resolution adopting the recommendation of the Greenburgh Police Department to add parking restrictions on the East side of Buckley Place from the intersection with Marion Avenue Southerly for 140 feet amending Chapter 460 of the Code of the Town of Greenburgh] ADOPTING THE RECOMMENDATION OF GREENBURG POLICE DEPARTMENTS HAD PARKING RESTRICTIONS ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE BUCKLEY PLACE FROM, UH, INTERSECTION WITH MARION AVENUE, UH, SUB FOR 150, UH, FEET. AMENDING CHAPTER FOUR 60 OF THE CODE OF THE TOWN OF GREENBURG. I'D LIKE TO MOVE THAT SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. AND FINALLY, RESOLUTION. [ TY 1 – 12/08/2021 Resolution accepting on behalf of the Department of Community Resources a $2,000 donation from Warren and Christina Jackson to help support the programs at the Theodore D. Young Community Center] ACCEPTING ON BEHALF OF THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNITY RESEARCH, THE 2000 DONATION FROM WARREN AND CHRISTINA JACKSON TO HELP SUPPORT, UM, UH, THE PROGRAMS AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER. SECOND IN FAVOR, AYE. AYE. MOVE. AYE. ADJOURN. SECOND. NO PUBLIC COMMENT. THIS, UH, NO, IT'S, IT'S MIDNIGHT. OKAY. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.